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chapmanb / cloudbiolinux

CloudBioLinux: configure virtual (or real) machines with tools for biological analyses
http://cloudbiolinux.org
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GGD dbsnp: change FTP to HTTP #268

Closed matthdsm closed 6 years ago

matthdsm commented 6 years ago

Some clusters do not allow FTP downloads, causing errors during install. Switching to http fixes that issue.

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chapmanb commented 6 years ago

Matthias; Thanks for this. Do you understand the conditions under which the ftp/http switch works cleanly? It doesn't appear to in all cases. I manually tested some with wget and the broad ftp links hang and never resolve. The mirbase ones do not resolve at all and report a 404. So I don't think we can do this globally and it must depend on how the site is setup. If there are specific changes where we can confirm that the download works I'm happy to adjust but think we'll break a lot by swapping everything over as in this PR right now. Thanks again for looking into the issue.

matthdsm commented 6 years ago

Hi Brad, You're right, I've been a bit too enthusiastic, I'll open an new PR later.

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