[DAS] Re: Hello Jim

[Jim Kent]

Here's the code I have now.  It looks like it has the X-DAS-Status
and so forth in it, but not in the order you're expecting.  Isn't the
order supposed to be flexible on your side though?

void dasHeader(int err)
/* Write out very start of DAS header */
{
printf("Content-Type:text/plain\n");
printf("X-DAS-Version: DAS/0.95\n");
printf("X-DAS-Status: %d\n", err);
printf("\n");
if (err != 200)
    exit(-1);
printf("<?xml version=\"1.0\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n");
}

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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" <jim_kent@pacbell.net>
Cc: <das@biodas.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Hello Jim


> 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 
> 
> 
> -----------------------
> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>