Question: Easy Linkage To User Dataset Files
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Matthew Vaughn • 10 wrote:
Dear Galactic Overlords,
I'd like to be able to provide external access via HTTP GET-able URL
to individual data files that are generated in the course of Galaxy
analysis. For example, say a user wanted to import her data in Galaxy,
do some basic manipulation and then download the resulting data file
into another environment using curl or wget...
If the user is not authenticated into the Galaxy server (ie is a
guest), and she copies the link from a data set in her history by
right clicking on the 'Save' icon, she gets something like this:
http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/datasets/259589cb863ac26a/display?to_ext=int
erval
and this URL is retrievable via curl -O "http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/dat
asets/259589cb863ac26a/display?to_ext=interval" resulting in a file.
However, if the user is coming from an authenticated environment, the
link will fail with a Permissions Error from Galaxy. Presumably, this
is because the server is checking for presence of a cookie that is set
during user authentication.
Short of sniffing the authentication token and passing it using
curl/wget along with the request (and this will fail when the token
expires), is there any way to accomplish what I am asking? Is there a
way to provide user credentials via the URL string perhaps?
Thanks,
Matt
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Matthew W. Vaughn, Ph.D.
Scientific Lead, iPlant Collaborative
Research Assistant Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown Road
Williams #5
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA
web: http://hispaniola.cshl.edu/
web: http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/
tel: (516) 367-8808
cell: (516) 353-7055
google-talk: matt.vaughn@gmail.com
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