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Felipe does have a long list of excluded sites in his run just for this reason. Greg would like a more declaritive solution like "please run on fast transfer hosts" especially if this is dynamic.
Curl_plugin doesn't do FTP
None of the following work. They either hang or produce errors. They work on the shell command line, except at CHTC where the squid server doesn't seem to grok FTP.
transfer_input_files = ftp://demo:password@test.rebex.net:/readme.txt
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp:@ftp.gnu.org:/welcome.msg
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp.gnu.org:/welcome.msg
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp:@ftp.slackware.com:/welcome.msg
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp.slackware.com:/welcome.msg
2024-02-05: Greg thinks this should work and will look into it.
File Transfer Plugins and HTCondor-C
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ANSWER: Greg thinks you can use stash remotely, like at our installation of HTCondor.
Curl_plugin doesn't do FTP
None of the following work. They either hang or produce errors. They work on the shell command line, except at CHTC where the squid server doesn't seem to grok FTP.
transfer_input_files = ftp://demo:password@test.rebex.net:/readme.txt
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp:@ftp.gnu.org:/welcome.msg
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp.gnu.org:/welcome.msg
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp:@ftp.slackware.com:/welcome.msg
transfer_input_files = ftp://ftp.slackware.com:/welcome.msg
2024-02-05: Greg thinks this should work and will look into it.
ANSWER: 2024-02-06 Greg wrote "Just found the problem with ftp file transfer plugin. I'm afraid there's no easy workaround, but I've pushed a fix that will go into the next stable release. "
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