[Genome] Custom tracks

[Kate Rosenbloom]

Hello Peter,

We are able to duplicate your problem -- it appears that
the support for CGI's invoked from custom tracks URL's
is no longer working as before.  We will notify
you when we have a fix in place.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

   Cheers,
	Kate
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Kate Rosenbloom
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics

> Peter Chines <pchines at mail.nih.gov> writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I notice that there have been big changes to the handling of custom
>> tracks.  While in general I think these changes are great, I'm having
>> some difficulty changing my programs to adapt to the new system, and
>> wonder if you can give me some pointers.
>>
>> In the past, I used a local webserver to generate a redirect to the
>> URLs like the following:
>>
>> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg17&hgt.customText=http://fusion.nhgri.nih.gov/ucsc/nph-tracks.cgi?snp=rs5400%26pval=p_snp
>>
>> This used to work, retrieving a set of custom tracks generated from our
>> local database and displaying them in the browser.
>>
>> I have tried to adapt this to the new custom tracks system, but I've
>> found that even entering this URL:
>>
>> http://fusion.nhgri.nih.gov/ucsc/nph-tracks.cgi?snp=rs5400&pval=p_snp
>>
>> manually on the Add Custom Tracks page does not work (it simply returns
>> the Add Custom Tracks page again).  On the other hand, submitting the
>> actual text of the tracks does seem to work.  I am obviously doing
>> somethign wrong, but don't know what.  Any hints you could give would be
>> much appreciated.  Ultimately, I'd like to end up with a URL that I can
>> redirect my users to that will allow them to see our custom tracks
>> (which are generated on the fly, not stored) in the UCSC browser.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
>>
>>
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>> Peter Chines                                  Computer Scientist
>> Genome Technology Branch                      FUSION Study Group
>> National Human Genome Research Institute
>> National Institutes of Health
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