we should get as many people as possible to request this.

On Jun 7, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Brock Palen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Steve, 
> 
> We are consumers of data from a resource we don't have control over.  Getting 
> that resource on Globus would be wonderful though,
> 
> It's the Human Microbiome Project.
> http://www.hmpdacc.org/resources/data_browser.php/
> 
> They provide public FTP and HTTP download, getting them in as a public data 
> source on GO would do the community a lot of good. 
> 
> 
> 
> Brock Palen
> www.umich.edu/~brockp
> CAEN Advanced Computing
> [email protected]
> (734)936-1985
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 7, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Steve Tuecke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to upgrade the FTP server to (anonymous) GridFTP? That should 
>> allow it to work with both globus-url-copy and Globus Online.
>> 
>> -Steve
>> 
>> On Jun 7, 2013, at 7:57 AM, Brock Palen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> MIke thanks good to know that it only works with file:///  which kinda 
>>> defeats the point with what we are trying to do.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Brock Palen
>>> www.umich.edu/~brockp
>>> CAEN Advanced Computing
>>> [email protected]
>>> (734)936-1985
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Michael Link <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Brock,
>>>> 
>>>> It is likely that those servers don't support third party transfers, or 
>>>> fxp as it is commonly called with standard ftp servers.  While some 
>>>> standard ftp server software supports this, it is often not enabled on 
>>>> public servers.
>>>> 
>>>> With the second server, it recognizes that the port you're telling it to 
>>>> connect to isn't the same one that the client is connecting from, and 
>>>> fails.
>>>> 
>>>> With the first I suspect it is simply ignoring the address portion of the 
>>>> PORT argument and attempting to connect to the client address.
>>>> 
>>>> Either should work if you're able to run globus-url-copy on the same host 
>>>> as the gridftp server, though that may of defeat the purpose.
>>>> 
>>>> Mike
>>>> 
>>>> On 6/4/2013 4:36 PM, Brock Palen wrote:
>>>>> I need to have a user push a lot of data though a host from an FTP only 
>>>>> site to our gridftp server.  The user has to do it this way because we 
>>>>> don't allow user login on this host  (sftp, and globusonline only)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Because we setup this host with GCMU we have self signed certs etc. but I 
>>>>> was able to manualy set subjects.  Problem is I can't get the transfer to 
>>>>> work:
>>>>> 
>>>>> globus-url-copy -dbg -v -ds '<subject>' 
>>>>> ftp://public-ftp.hmpdacc.org/Illumina/stool/SRS045004.tar.bz2 
>>>>> gsiftp://gridftp-flux.engin.umich.edu/scratch/support_flux/brockp/tmp/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just hangs, and the file says size zero.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Last line of debug information is:
>>>>> debug: sending command to 
>>>>> ftp://public-ftp.hmpdacc.org/Illumina/stool/SRS045004.tar.bz2:
>>>>> PORT 141,212,30,14,196,207
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried using another ftp server and I get a different error:
>>>>> 
>>>>> globus-url-copy  -dbg -v -ds '<subject>' 
>>>>> ftp://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/extras/README 
>>>>> gsiftp://gridftp-flux.engin.umich.edu/scratch/support_flux/brockp/tmp/
>>>>> 
>>>>> error: globus_ftp_client: the server responded with an error
>>>>> 500 Illegal PORT command
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any thoughts on why I can't do this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Brock Palen
>>>>> www.umich.edu/~brockp
>>>>> CAEN Advanced Computing
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> (734)936-1985
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
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