[emboss-dev] MRS 3 as EMBOSS sequence access mechanism

[Peter Rice]

Guy Bottu wrote:
> 	Dear all,
> 
> The MRS servers are shifting from version 2 to version 3. A result is that the 
> EMBOSS sequence access mechanism "mrs" does not work anymore. The reason is that 
>   the URL to be generated by the software is not anymore something like
> http://mrs.cmbi.kun.nl/mrs/cgi-bin/mrs.cgi?db=sprot%2Btrembl&query=id:papa1_carpa&format=entry&exp=1&save_to=text/plain
> but
> http://mrs.cmbi.kun.nl/mrs-3/plain.do?db=uniprot&id=papa1_carpa

Hmmm ... I have something working.

The MRS3 server absolutely requires HTTP/1.x on the GET line.

The MRS2 server was happy without it (though I am not sure why it was the only 
EMBOSS method that did not use it)

Peter