On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jonathan Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've always had an issue with the commands like this > http://www.ebi.ac.uk/das-srv/genomicdas/das/eqtl_rat_cis_fat not being a > valid das command as it's the most natural request for a person new to das > to make. So giving it a specific purpose and response is a good idea. > What would you put there? HTML "welcome" information (which seems to be ProServer's current behaviour)? DAS XML? (in which case... the relevant SOURCE element, or something else)? DAS XML with some strong encouragement for servers to attach a stylesheet to turn it into something readable if you hit it with a browser? Currently, Dazzle just returns an error, because it interacts rather nastily with the way Dazzle supports hierarchical datasource namespaces. Having said that, the original use case for these hasn't really materialized, so it wouldn't be a big deal to strip this out. Thomas. _______________________________________________ DAS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/das
