Hi Greg, I do see the concern of uploading data through the api but I don't think filtering on file types is the right solution. It seems to be an issue with allowing everyone to register. Wouldn't it be better to at least validate e-mail addresses of new users on the main instance? This would probably resolve most issues related to unwanted content on the server?
Furthermore I agree with Peter, that if you want to block certain file types on your own instance, they should be removed from the datatypes_config.xml and thereby disabling them. Btw I needed the images for the sample tracking part - e.g. uploading gel fotos. Cheers, Jelle On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Greg Von Kuster <g...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Peter Cock wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Greg Von Kuster <g...@bx.psu.edu> > wrote: > >> Helo Jelle, > >> I've taken a look at your patches and the code looks good. > >> However, I'm wondering why you find it necessary to upload image files > to > >> Galaxy. Do tools exist that take image files as input? If the Galaxy > >> community finds this feature as a good addition to Galaxy, we can > probably > >> incorporate it into the distribution. > > > > I think it is a nice feature - and can come up with some use cases too. > > How about future tools for image analysis? e.g. microscope photos of > > cultures to automatically do cell/organism counting, or plant leaves > > for pathogenicity assays. > > Ok, I'm convinced. > > > > >> However, we'll need an additional feature before we can do that. We'll > >> need to implement a type of config setting that enables / disables the > >> uploading of image files via the Galaxy api. ... > > > > Why not just allow it? A general configuration allowing/blocking any > > file type from being uploaded makes more sense to me than just > > wanting to block images. > > The enhancement would be to add a config setting to allow / disallow > uploading any data type ( not just images ) via the api. The problem with > just allowing uploading of images is that we'll end up hosting a bunch of > porn on our main public Galaxy instance. This has happened to us in the > past... > > > > > Peter > > > > Greg Von Kuster > Galaxy Development Team > g...@bx.psu.edu > > > >
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