[DAS] Dalliance: a new genome DAS client

Wed Aug 4 15:14:58 UTC 2010

Sorry, I do not know what link I used but I tried again and CORS headers 
are there
Thanks
On 04/08/2010 16:09, Jonathan Warren wrote:
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> On 4 Aug 2010, at 16:03, Leyla Garcia wrote:
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>> Thanks Andy and Jonathan,
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>> The CORS header is already in MyDAS and it will be available for the 
>> next release, which will be soon :)
>> I will check the specification about Access-Control-Expose-Headers
>>
> Great stuff.
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>> Jonathan, I am checking the response headers with an add-on in 
>> Firefox. I tried the first URL in the dasregistry link you send me, 
>> i.e. http://cathdb.info:9000/das/cath_pdb/features?segment=5pti
>> but I do not see the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header there. So I 
>> am not sure what I missing...
>>
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> Thats odd - the first in the list is "structure" source and is run by 
> the sanger which has cors in the header ( I just checked using the 
> firefox plugin)- did you use the whole url I sent?
>
>> Leyla
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>> On 04/08/2010 15:54, Jonathan Warren wrote:
>>> resp.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
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>>> On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:51, Jonathan Warren wrote:
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>>>> This url list 150 das sources that implement cors - see traffic 
>>>> light on the end:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dasregistry.org/listServices.jsp?organism=any&CSName=any&CSTypes=any&capabilities=cors&labels=any&spec=any&cmd=find 
>>>> <http://www.dasregistry.org/listServices.jsp?organism=any&CSName=any&CSTypes=any&capabilities=cors&labels=any&spec=any&cmd=find>
>>>>
>>>> You can check the headers responses for any of their valid responses.
>>>>
>>>> If you  want some java code that adds this functionality to MyDAS I 
>>>> can send it to you...
>>>>
>>>> On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:03, Leyla Garcia wrote:
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>>>>> About CORS,
>>>>>
>>>>> >If you run your own DAS servers and
>>>>> >don't list them in the registry, you'll need to check for CORS 
>>>>> compatibility
>>>>> >yourself.  The latest versions of Proserver and Dazzle should 
>>>>> both be okay.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I am not mistaken, Proserver already implements CORS headers?
>>>>> Andy, could you please send me a link of a Proserver server that 
>>>>> implements this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Leyla
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/08/2010 21:52, Jonathan Warren wrote:
>>>>>> This is very cool - I had a look the other day. Was wondering why 
>>>>>> some sources could be attached and some can't....
>>>>>> Best browser experience yet by far I'd say.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No problems about adding CORS support - for the record I'm very 
>>>>>> happy to implement new capabilities testing and other suggestions 
>>>>>> to the registry from anyone who cares to drop me a line. 
>>>>>> Especially if it's going to enhance and promote the use of the 
>>>>>> registry :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3 Aug 2010, at 20:41, Thomas Down wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As some of you already know, I've been experimenting recently with a
>>>>>>> web-based DAS client for genomic data.  It's still in
>>>>>>> a unashamedly prototypical state (in particular, some of the 
>>>>>>> popups and
>>>>>>> configuration stuff is outright clunky, and we know it!), but 
>>>>>>> we're starting
>>>>>>> to find it quite useful, and would be interested to receive more 
>>>>>>> feedback.
>>>>>>> So if you're curious, you can try it here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.biodalliance.org/human/ncbi36/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's a fully-fledged DAS/1.53 client (with a few bits of 
>>>>>>> DAS/1.6, and
>>>>>>> hopefully rather more coming soon), but has one major caveat: 
>>>>>>> since it's
>>>>>>> pure Javascript code running in your web browser, there are 
>>>>>>> limitations to
>>>>>>> which servers it can connect to.  Specifically, it will only 
>>>>>>> work with DAS
>>>>>>> servers that implement the W3C cross-origin resource sharing 
>>>>>>> model (which
>>>>>>> has been discussed on this list before, but drop me a line if 
>>>>>>> you've got any
>>>>>>> questions).  What does this mean in practice?  If you're adding 
>>>>>>> datasources
>>>>>>> from the registry, things are simple because Dalliance will only 
>>>>>>> allow you
>>>>>>> to add CORS-enabled sources (a huge thanks to Jonathan Warren 
>>>>>>> for adding
>>>>>>> some support for this in the registry).  If you run your own DAS 
>>>>>>> servers and
>>>>>>> don't list them in the registry, you'll need to check for CORS 
>>>>>>> compatibility
>>>>>>> yourself.  The latest versions of Proserver and Dazzle should 
>>>>>>> both be okay.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                 Thomas Down.
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jonathan Warren
>>>>>> Senior Developer and DAS coordinator
>>>>>> blog: http://biodasman.wordpress.com/
>>>>>> jw12 at sanger.ac.uk
>>>>>> Ext: 2314
>>>>>> Telephone: 01223 492314
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>>>> Jonathan Warren
>>>> Senior Developer and DAS coordinator
>>>> blog: http://biodasman.wordpress.com/
>>>> jw12 at sanger.ac.uk
>>>> Ext: 2314
>>>> Telephone: 01223 492314
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>>> Jonathan Warren
>>> Senior Developer and DAS coordinator
>>> blog: http://biodasman.wordpress.com/
>>> jw12 at sanger.ac.uk <mailto:jw12 at sanger.ac.uk>
>>> Ext: 2314
>>> Telephone: 01223 492314
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> Jonathan Warren
> Senior Developer and DAS coordinator
> blog: http://biodasman.wordpress.com/
> jw12 at sanger.ac.uk <mailto:jw12 at sanger.ac.uk>
> Ext: 2314
> Telephone: 01223 492314
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> -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research 
> Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a 
> company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered 
> office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.