Re: Possible problems with Brookhaven Mirror
Henry Brzeski (h.brzeski@strath.ac.uk)
Thu, 29 Feb 96 08:38:22 GMT
>There are a number of solutions-
>
>1) Change these relative URLs to absolute. However, this means that the
>pdb file must be delivered from Birkbeck, which is not ideal if accessing
>the pages from outside Europe. This problem also applies to the various
>PDB structures pointed to in the rest of the material, some of which are
>large files of course.
>
>2) Have Brookhaven PDB server stamp .pdb files with the chemical MIME
>type (and then use relative URLs). I was thinking that this is probably
>not a reasonable request, ie having their WWW congifuration determined by
>the PPS course.
>
>3) Use a different extension for the PDB files, e.g. '.ent' , '.pps' etc,
>which is not currently present on any files on the Brookhaven Web server,
>and ask Dave Stampf to configure the server to deliver these with the
>chemical MIME type (and use relative URLs). But my gut feeling is that
>filename extensions are quite important, and preferably, the '.pdb' extension
>should be used for PDB files.
My solution to the problem has been to download the files I want onto our
server, have them stamped there and point the URL at these files. This does
not resolve the problem of cross Atlantiic traffic.
h
Henry Brzeski
Dept of Bioscience and Biotechnology
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University of Strathclyde
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