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Protocols & Connections

OpenECPDS interacts with a variety of environments and supports multiple standard protocols. The software is modular, supporting new protocols through extensions (see Transfer Modules).

Outgoing connections

Used by the Data Acquisition and Data Dissemination services:

  • FTP
  • SFTP
  • FTPS
  • HTTP / HTTPS
  • Amazon S3
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Google Cloud Storage

Incoming connections

Used by the Data Portal:

  • FTP
  • HTTPS
  • S3

Note

At the moment, SFTP and SCP for incoming Data Portal connections are available exclusively through a Commercial API.

Authentication & connection methods

Protocol configurations vary based on authentication and connection methods, for example:

  • Password vs. key-based authentication.
  • Parallel vs. serial connections.

Each transfer module exposes its own set of options to fine-tune these aspects. See the individual module pages:

Protocol Module page
FTP FTP
FTPS FTPS
SFTP SFTP
HTTP/HTTPS HTTP/HTTPS
Amazon S3 Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage GCS
Azure Blob Storage Azure
SSH/Telnet auth ECauth