Thanks for the response! I'll try it out. On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Galt Barber wrote:
> > 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
