You need to do url-encoding via hexidecimal escaping. The space character in particular becomes %20.
Googling for URL Encoding turns up many helpful examples such as this one: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm -Galt Ar 3/16/2010 1:26 PM, scríobh Jennifer Jackson: > Hello Milan, > > Have you tried quoting? This would all need to be escaped, but it would > allow spaces to be included in the variable. > > If you try this and if you still have problems, you can send the string > to us for comment. Send to me directly and I can keep it restricted to > just 1-2 developers and not post to genome mailing list. You could > always change after we help, too. > > Please give this a try and let us know how it goes, > Jennifer > > --------------------------------- > Jennifer Jackson > UCSC Genome Informatics Group > http://genome.ucsc.edu/ > > On 3/16/10 12:17 PM, Radovich, Milan wrote: >> Dear UCSC, >> Im in the process of trying to visualize BAM files from NGS. The problem >> I have is that our University FTP requires a username and passphrase for >> access. Ive tried putting my username and passphrase in to the URL for the >> "custom track" but because our university requires our passphrase to be at >> least 4 words along, thus introducing "spaces", the genome browser doesn't >> seem to like that. Do you possibly have any suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> Milan >> >> Milan Radovich >> Ph.D Graduate Student >> Dept. of Medical& Molecular Genetics >> Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Hematology/Oncology >> Indiana University School of Medicine >> Lab: 317-274-4646 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Genome maillist - [email protected] >> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
