Nice link Galt! One slight correction: don't encode the = after
hgt.customText, we still need that one. Try this one:
hgt.customText=http%3A%2F%2Fgenometest.chop.edu%2Fcnv_darcy%2Fresults.jsp%3Bjsessionid%3D8736C9A4B6C643E077735322DA8D2E60%3Fbedfile%3Dtester.bed
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Angie
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Galt Barber wrote:
>
> When you pass a URL inside a URL,
> it must be URL-encoded.
>
> i.e. replace any special chars like :/?= etc.
> with %xx where xx is the hex code of the
> ascii character.
>
> http://www.albionresearch.com/misc/urlencode.php
> e.g.
> hgt.customText%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fgenometest.chop.edu%2Fcnv_darcy%2Fresults.jsp%3Bjsessionid%3D8736C9A4B6C643E077735322DA8D2E60%3Fbedfile%3Dtester.bed
>
> -Galt
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Monica D'Arcy wrote:
>
> > Hello UCSC team,
> >
> > We have a CNV (copy number variation) web application here at
> > Children's Hospital where we can dynamically build .bed files based
> > on the current query parameters. We would like to link to your
> > browser and display bed files, however we would like these files to
> > be dynamically generated. We see you have a way to link to static
> > bed file with the URL: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?
> > org=human&chr1:103898845-103923670&hgt.customText=http://whatever/
> > file.bed". I would like our files to be built dynamically, so that
> > we only build them if requested. I tried doing this by setting the
> > hgt.customText= our URL with a session id along with a parameter that
> > lets the application know to send back a response that contains
> > information in bed file format.
> >
> > For instance:
> > hgt.customText=http://genometest.chop.edu/cnv_darcy/
> > results.jsp;jsessionid=8736C9A4B6C643E077735322DA8D2E60?
> > bedfile=tester.bed.
> >
> > I am never getting a request from the UCSC browser, which leads me to
> > believe this may not be possible. I have tested the link I set in
> > hgt.customText and it is valid. The UCSC browser does show data, but
> > default data for the position I set in the URL. Is what I am trying
> > to do possible?
> >
> > Thanks so much,
> > Monica
> >
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> >
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