[DAS] If all DAS query must fit into single URL only, the length of it is limited. At least POST is required.

[Lincoln Stein]

The DAS/1 protocol already calls for POST.

Regards,

Lincoln

On Monday 24 February 2003 10:21 am, Audrius Meskauskas wrote:
> Using URL as a query is very like the GET method in the web forms. The web
> programmers know that using this limits the length of the query data: no
> server will support the URL that is, say, 4000 characters in length - and
> this means that DNA, RNA and protein sequences cannot be easily submitted
> to DAS server.
>
> If not to use SOAP or something similar, I suggest to accept the standard,
> allowing DAS server to receive the requests using POST method. This is the
> way how the problem of sequence submission is solved for the ordinary
> servers.
>
> Audrius Meskauskas.
> http://bioinformatics.org/jSight/
> http://jsight.sourceforge.net/index_SF.htm
> Ulm university
>
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