Arek Kasprzyk wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2006, at 12:51, David Withers wrote: > >> When I try and get the software version for the dicty mart using >> http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?type=version&virtualschema=default&mart=dicty >> >> I get: >> >> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>200 >> OK</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>OK</H1>The server encountered an internal >> error ormisconfiguration and was unable to completeyour >> request.<P>Please contact the server administrator, >> webmaster&#064;mydomain.org and inform them of the time the error >> occurred,and anything you might have done that may havecaused the >> error.<P>More information about this error may be availablein the server >> error log.<P></BODY></HTML> >> >> and a 200 status code. >> >> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? >> > > nothing :) > > As far as I know dicty mart is on a very early > (probably about to be released at the time) 0.4 code so it is likely > that the version request is not supported. However, we have > had an older type of this request > > http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?type=versioncheck&mart=dicty&version=0.4 > > > which returns 1 if the version is 0.4 > > not sure if this helps you here
I had thought that some installations wouldn't understand the version request so I assume version 0.4 if I get an error back. Unfortunately I don't get an error back in this case, the status code is 200 OK. David. -- David Withers School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44(0)161 275 0145
