Peter,

Damn - looked through the documentation and missed that authentication
bit. Good to know that the large files are no problem - I'm sure the
people around here are going to push it to the limit!

Thanks again

p

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Paul Agapow (paul-michael.aga...@hpa.org.uk)
Bioinformatics, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency

-----Original Message-----
From: Pieter Neerincx [mailto:pieter.neeri...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 22 March 2011 12:07
To: Paul-Michael Agapow
Cc: galaxy-user@lists.bx.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [galaxy-user] Upload file size and user authorization

Hi Paul,

On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Paul-Michael Agapow wrote:

> Two questions, either of which may belong more on the developers list.
But lets try here first:
>  
> 1.       As we migrate services to Galaxy, a stakeholder expressed
concern at uploading large datafiles of "several gigabytes". Given that
we can require users to  upload from an ftp site or something similar,
does anyone have experience with how well this works with gigabyte-size
files? I figure I can always write a tool to upload masses of data via a
slow but robust method, but it would be good to know if this is
required.

Large files are no problem and you may use an FTP site. Depending how
much bandwidth you have it may take some time though to move large files
around. Please see:

        
https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/ProductionServer


for details on how to optimize uploads. Downloads are are different
thing though as right now you can only get them as an HTTP download.

> 2.       Similarly, someone else wanted to know if Galaxy
authorization could be plugged into another system, such as  Active
Directory. Any pointers on this, or will I have to cut some code? 

Yes, using "external authentication" via an Apache proxy as described
here: 

        
https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/ApacheProxy 

I'm using this to link my Galaxy to our University's LDAP and that works
like a charm :).

Cheers,

Pi

> thanks
>  
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> Paul Agapow (paul-michael.aga...@hpa.org.uk)
> Bioinformatics, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency
>  
> 
> 
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