[DAS] Re: Hello Jim

[Brian Gilman]

Hello Jim,

Here is the current output from your server:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:19:09 GMT
Server Apache/1.3.20 (Unix)
Keep-Alive timeout=15, max=100
Connection Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding chunked
Content-Type text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
content-length 79



Here is what we are looking for:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:17:44 GMT
Server Apache/1.3.20 (Unix)
X-DAS-Status 200
X-DAS-Version DAS/0.95
Keep-Alive timeout=15, max=100
Connection Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding chunked
Content-Type text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
content-length 1037


	This will allow clients to know what version of the spec you are
supporting at an early stage and reduce the # of round trips we need to
make to figure this out.


				Thanks Jim!!

					-Brian 


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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


On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jim Kent wrote:

> 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....
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>