problems with the ref. genomes and network port

[Rodrigo Celis]

I'm having trouble uploading reference genomes to the IGV web application because, at my university, the Cybersecurity Department has blocked many ports for security reasons. Unfortunately, IGV uses one of the blocked ports to transfer the data needed to upload reference genomes. Now, to request that my university unblock that port, I need to know the port or the means by which IGV obtains the information for its reference genomes.

Please, can you help me?

[igv-help]

The IGV web application doesn't use any special ports - just a standard https port (I think 443 or 8443). 

Or do you mean that they block certain URLs/domains?  Genome-related files are retrieved from 

- https://igv.org 

               I assume this is available to you if you can run the web app at https://igv.org/app

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/igvteam 

               For example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/igvteam/igv-data/refs/heads/main/data/hg19/hg19_alias.tab

- https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu 

               For example: https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/hg19.chrom.sizes