Re: tpp_gui.pl Modification for Mascot

[scott stansfield]

Hi All,

I may have inadvertently posted my reply directly to Chee-Hong and Ulrich. So I'll try again. (Thank goodness for moderating new users)

I sympathize with Ulrich that the Mascot server (2.20) that I was trying to access uses it's own cookie based security ("mascot security") and is not opened by using the http-user/http-password options for wget. I had a play with tpp_gui.pl (v4.2.1) and added in half a dozen lines to put in cookie authentication for mascot (search for $mascot_cookie). The code I added will download the security cookie, but will not log out of the mascot server - it relies on the sent cookie eventually timing out. I didn't put in a login/logout option because, well, I don't know how.

If anyone makes some improvements I'd love to see them!

Cheers,

Scott



On Feb 15 2008, 8:53 pm, Chee-Hong WONG <won...@bii.a-star.edu.sg> wrote:
> Hi Ulrich,
>
> To get this feature to work, you have to make sure that yourmascotuser
> account has the following two rights granted.
> 1) GENERAL: View config files using ms-status
> 2) ADMIN: Allow use of Database Status application
>
> An easier way to test this is to access yourMascotserver homepage.  Loginusing the user id and password via the "Log in" link under
> "Security" section.
> Next click on "Database Status" link (with following text of "View the
> status of all the sequence databases. Links to database statistics,
> search status, log files, etc.") under the "MascotUtilities" section.
> If this fails, get your administrator to grant your account the access
> right as above.  Or just put your account as member of "Power Users" group.
>
> Cheers,
> Chee-Hong.