Connection Management

Functions to open and close connections to an RLS server. More...

Defines

Functions


Detailed Description

Functions to open and close connections to an RLS server.


Define Documentation

#define GLOBUS_RLS_URL_SCHEME   "rls"
 

URL scheme to use when connecting to RLS server.

#define GLOBUS_RLS_URL_SCHEME_NOAUTH   "rlsn"
 

URL scheme when connecting to RLS server without authentication.

#define GLOBUS_RLS_SERVER_DEFPORT   39281
 

Default port number that RLS server listens on.

#define MAXERRMSG   1024
 

Maximum length of error messages returned by server.


Function Documentation

void globus_rls_client_certificate char *  certfile,
char *  keyfile
 

Set certificate used in authentication.

Sets environment variables X509_USER_CERT, X509_USER_KEY, and clears X509_USER_PROXY.

Parameters:
certfile Name of X509 certificate file.
keyfile Name of X509 key file.

void globus_rls_client_proxy_certificate char *  proxy  ) 
 

Set X509_USER_PROXY environment variable to specified file.

Parameters:
proxy Name of X509 proxy certificate file. If NULL clears X509_USER_PROXY.

globus_result_t globus_rls_client_connect char *  url,
globus_rls_handle_t **  h
 

Open connection to RLS server.

Parameters:
url URL of server to connect to. URL scheme should be RLS or RLSN, eg RLS://my.host. If the URL scheme is RLSN then no authentication is performed (the RLS server must be started with authentication disabled as well, this option is primarily intended for testing).
h If the connection is successful *h will be set to the connection handle. This handle is required by all other functions in the API.
Return values:
GLOBUS_SUCCESS Handle h now connected to RLS server identified by url.

globus_result_t globus_rls_client_close globus_rls_handle_t h  ) 
 

Close connection to RLS server.

Parameters:
h Connection handle to be closed, previously allocated by globus_rls_client_connect().
Return values:
GLOBUS_SUCCESS Connection closed, h is no longer valid.

int globus_rls_client_get_timeout  ) 
 

Get timeout for IO calls to RLS server.

If 0 IO calls do not timeout. The default is 30 seconds.

Return values:
timeout Seconds to wait before timing out an IO operation.

void globus_rls_client_set_timeout int  seconds  ) 
 

Set timeout for IO calls to RLS server.

Parameters:
seconds Seconds to wait before timing out an IO operation. If 0 IO calls do not timeout. The default is 30 seconds.


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