Enable the use of a proxy to download resources

meatcar commented 10 years ago

Clients behind secure firewalls often encounter difficulties opening ports 21 & 80 for MedSavant to download required resources (annotations, etc). An option available to them is to set up an SSH tunnel, but if they lack root access, they can only bind to ports in the 1000+ range.

MedSavant lacks a method of specifying an alternative port to use for fetching resources. However, this feature can be added fairly easily:

Jannovar supports proxies with the --proxy and --proxy-port arguments
For MedSavant's side, the server has some confusing network code, but I am sure getting it to support proxies is a small rewrite away.

sdumitriu commented 10 years ago

Check out https://github.com/compbio-UofT/medsavant/blob/master/distribution/medsavant-server-deb/src/main/resources/medsavant.default#L20 and https://github.com/compbio-UofT/medsavant/blob/master/distribution/medsavant-client-deb/src/main/resources/medsavant.sh#L29

meatcar commented 10 years ago

I forgot you can set options from the command line. My bad.

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Enable the use of a proxy to download resources #343