Good point. You doint want to url encode the hgt.customText= just the url after that.
-Galt On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Angie Hinrichs wrote: > 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 > ^ > > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Genome maillist - [email protected] >>> http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Genome maillist - [email protected] >> http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome >> > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Software Developer, UCSC CBSE / Genome Bioinformatics Group > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
