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JBrowse 1, a full-featured genome browser built with JavaScript and HTML5. For JBrowse 2, see https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse-components.
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[Question] Is there any hideURIs option like JBrowse 2? #1650

Closed shreyas-a-s closed 3 months ago

shreyas-a-s commented 3 months ago

There is a hideUris option for configuring jbrowse 2 which lets us hide the uri locations from being seen by user. Currently when user selects a track and clicks Edit config, they gets the url of the fasta, gff3 files which I would like to prevent. Is there any way I can achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

cmdcolin commented 3 months ago

i am not sure we have one, sorry :) some complicated plugin may be able to remove e.g. the edit config entirely but it would all be a bit of 'security by obscurity' as someone can check the network tab to see the urls after all

shreyas-a-s commented 3 months ago

It's totally ok. No problem at all. I was just curious that's all.

And yeah that's a valid point. That is, normal users won't be bothered to check the url and tech-savy users have other means of finding urls other than just looking at the edit config even if it is hidden. Hence there's not really a great advantage of hiding it.

Thanks for the reply.