[Bioperl-l] Can't connect to www.ncbi.nih.gov:80 (Bad hostname'www.ncbi.nih.gov')

[Francis Ouellette]

Dear Damien,

That domain name should have never worked!

wrong:     www.ncbi.nih.gov

correct:   www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
                    ^^^
cheers,

f.




Damien Mattei wrote:
> 
> i wrote some code last year which worked well, and didn't run during 1
> or 2 months,now i get an error:
> 
> $seq = $dbn->get_Seq_by_acc($bacname); # this returns a Seq object
> 
> The code threw this exception
> 
> ------------- EXCEPTION  -------------
> MSG: WebDBSeqI Request Error:
> 500 (Internal Server Error) Can't connect to www.ncbi.nih.gov:80 (Bad
> hostname 'www.ncbi.nih.gov')
> 
> i'm using  bioperl-1.1.1 from CVS (29 oct 2002), should i upgrade again
> or is it a problem on the NCBI servers.
> 
> thanks to help
> 
> Damien
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