[DAS] Re: Hello Jim

[Jim Kent]

Could you grab the current response from 
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das
put the change you want in, and send it to
me via email?  I'm not sure where to put it.


Then, could you please stop changing DAS
so often?  Double digit version numbers in
a *standard* are really a sign something is
broken in the process....

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Jim Kent.  Zahler Lab.  University of California at Santa Cruz
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~kent/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Gilman" <gilmanb@harpo.wi.mit.edu>
To: <jim_kent@pacbell.net>
Cc: <das@biodas.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:57 AM
Subject: Hello Jim


> Hello Jim, 
> 
> Long time no talk. As you may know a few of my developers have
> been pinging you about your DAS server. The spec has changed quite a bit
> but and there are certain portions that remain ambiguous. One of these
> ambiguities have caused havok with our DAS API. The specification defines
> a header called "X-DAS-Version" this header should be available to the
> requester upon each and every request to the server. However, we have
> found that if you ping a DAS server without a specific das request ie.
> 
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das 
> 
> We do not see an "X-DAS-Status" header which causes our API to
> break. I know this is being very nit picky but, with all the versions of
> DAS laying around, we find that having this header present at the most top
> level request allows us to handle all these versions seemlessly. 
> 
> To that end, could you please add the "X-DAS-Version" header to
> your DAS server when querying the top most URL
> (genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das)? 
> 
> 
> Thank You!!
> 
> -Brian Gilman
> 
> 
> -----------------------
> Brian Gilman <gilmanb@genome.wi.mit.edu>
> Sr. Software Engineer MIT/Whitehead Inst. Center for Genome Research
> One Kendall Square, Bldg. 300 / Cambridge, MA 02139-1561 USA
> phone +1 617  252 1069 / fax +1 617 252 1902
> 
> 
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