Dear Kevin, Thank you for pointing out this bug. We were able to reproduce this and our engineers are looking into this issue.
Please feel free to contact the mailing list if you have further questions or concerns. Vanessa Kirkup Swing UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Murphy" <[email protected]> To: "genome" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 3, 2011 11:35:08 AM Subject: [Genome] Funky bug A colleague came up with the following deadly typo when using the UCSC Genome Browser: chr:1-1111111 This provokes a 22.5 MB disambiguation response from the browser, starting with: "SwitchGear Genomics Transcription Start Sites CHR1_P0001_R1 at chr1:10465-10465 CHR1_P0001_R2 at chr1:11874-11874" ... and ending in: "mySQL error 1153: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytess" Warning: this response (presumably its size) kills the latest Safari on Mac (latest Firefox on Mac survives). Regards, Kevin Murphy _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
