[DAS] entry_points query

[avilella]

Hi all,

I have been trying to get the grips with biodas the last couple of days,
and playing around with the several servers that are listed by Dr. F.
Cheung.

Any there is something that I don't understand about entry_points query:

If I query any of the databases for something like:

PREFIX/das/DSN/entry_points

Which is what you would query according to the specification (1.5),
you don't get anything.

Now if instead you query with lowecase dsn:

PREFIX/das/dsn/entry_points

you get:

(1) the same result as dsn query for some sites, like for example:

http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das/dsn/entry_points
http://www.wormbase.org/db/das/dsn/entry_points
http://www.tigr.org/docs/tigr-scripts/tgi/das/dsn/entry_points

(2) You don't get anything, like for example:

http://servlet.sanger.ac.uk:8080/das/dsn/entry_points
http://tomcat.molgen.mpg.de:8080/das/dsn/entry_points
http://supfam.org/SUPERFAMILY/cgi-bin/das/dsn/entry_points

(3) You get an error 402 Bad command arguments (arguments invalid):
------------------------------
DAS Error 402

 Path is dsn/entry_points?
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like for example in:

http://genome.ornl.gov/das/das.cgi/dsn/entry_points

This is the list that I have checked:

http://servlet.sanger.ac.uk:8080/das
http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das/dsn
http://www.wormbase.org/db/das/dsn
http://genome.ornl.gov/das/das.cgi/dsn
http://tomcat.molgen.mpg.de:8080/das
http://eugenes.org/cgi-bin/srsdas/dsn
http://supfam.org/SUPERFAMILY/cgi-bin/das/dsn
http://www.tigr.org/docs/tigr-scripts/tgi/das/dsn

*http://stash.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk:8080/das
*http://das.bcgsc.ca:8080/das
*http://gadfly.gen.cam.ac.uk:8080/das
*http://ensembl.gsc.riken.go.jp/cgi-bin/das/dsn

*Not there anymore.

Any hint of what may be happening?

Thanks in advance,

    Albert.