Initiating a transfer
You can use Connect with the Aspera demo server to test basic transfer functions and also familiarize yourself with how to initiate uploads and downloads.
The following steps describe how to initiate a file transfer, and shows how to perform a download from Aspera demo server.
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On the AoC Demo page, open the folder small.
To select a file or folder you want to download, click the check-box next to it. You can also click multiple boxes to select more than one file or folder to download at a time. Once you've made your selections, click Download.
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Confirm the download.
A dialog appears asking whether you want to allow the server access to your machine. Select Yes to begin. To skip this dialog in the future, enable the check-box Remember my choice for this site. The server is then added to your Trusted Hosts list. For more information on trusted hosts and how to manage them, see Security configuration.
The way hosts are granted access differs from previous Connect releases. Instead of prompting for permission to communicate with a transfer node when a transfer is about to start, Connect prompts for the website when the website first tries to interact with the Connect APIs. Thus, the address in the dialog is no longer a transfer server, but is instead the address of the website. As a result, sites that perform transfers with many different hosts no longer need to respond to access requests from each of those hosts because there will be only a single request for the website.
