For what it is worth, this problem seems to be pervasive at Promega (in Madison, Wisconsin, US) and at least one other local computer that is not going through the Promega network. Ethan
-----Original Message----- From: Arek Kasprzyk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:41 AM To: Ethan Strauss; [email protected] Subject: Re: [mart-dev] Problems connecting with Biomart Hi Ethan, I just tried it from here (Toronto) and don't seem to have any problems. Where are you trying to access it from? Does anyone else have the same problem as Ethan? A. On 27/10/09 11:40 AM, "Ethan Strauss" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am just starting to use Biomart, but I have been having fundamental > issues connecting with it. My goals is to access Ensemble via SOAP using > Biomart, but I can't get a connection. In fact, I almost can't even load pages > from www.biomart.org on my web browser. For most pages, they seem to load > after about 10-30 minutes and other pages, including all the documentation > pages I have tried, never load at all. When I try to access programmatically > using SOAP (C# 3.0 using .NET pointed to > http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martwsdl) I get "unable to connect to remote > server" and "timeout" errors even when I set the timeout to very long times > (500 seconds is the longest I have tried). > I have tried pinging www.biomart.org and that seems fine, so I don't > think there is a general connection issue. I can access the biomart at ensembl > through my browser without any issues. > I can't get at the documentation at biomart.org, so I am not really > sure where to start. Can anyone help out with this issue? > Thanks! > Ethan > > Ethan Strauss Ph.D. > Bioinformatics Scientist > Promega Corporation > 2800 Woods Hollow Rd. > Madison, WI 53711 > 608-274-4330 > 800-356-9526 > [email protected]
