#31 Broken genecards redirection?

[Jon Olav Vik]

http://identifiers.org/genecards/ABL1 redirects to http://www6.unito.it/cards/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1
which for a week or so has been giving the error

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
www6.unito.it
Fri Nov 27 11:01:05 2015
Apache/2.2.0 (Linux/SUSE)

Maybe the target for the redirection has changed its URL scheme; I don't know. However, there are other, working locations listed at http://identifiers.org/genecards/. On the other hand, two of the locations listed don't work. Here's the status:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100413
works: http://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1
(it seems genecards_v3.hgc.jp redirects to genecards.org)

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100407
works: http://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100410
fails: http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/genecards/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100412
fails: http://genecards.bioinformatics.nl/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1

I don't know why the default redirect ends up at unito.it, which is not on the above list. Hence I report the error here, though you might want to approach the webmaster at unito.it.

Suggestions:
Change the default redirect to a server that works.
Check whether the failing redirects above are permanently down, have changed their url scheme, or just have temporary problems.
* Automate a check of whether resources are still available, e.g. once a week.

Thanks!

Jon Olav

[Jon Olav Vik]

Sorry, misformatted the suggestions. I meant a bulleted list:

• Change the default redirect to a server that works.
• Check whether the failing redirects above are permanently down, have changed their url scheme, or just have temporary problems.
• Automate a check of whether resources are still available, e.g. once a week.

[Nick Juty]

Dear Jon,
Thanks again for your input for identifiers.org. We very much appreciate your feedback!
In response to your bullets:

1. • This one is my fault. We have a 'primary' flag which should preferentially redirect to an up (primary) resource. In most cases this has been automatically assigned. For some reason, in this case, it has been assigned to a deprecated URL (a mirror that died, and was removed from our 'live' linking). This will be followed up on our side, to ensure no other resources are assigned this way.
2. • We actually have in place a daily check on all our links. The issue is follow up. For example it is very hard to find a 'person' to contact for some resources, and this is one of them.

I have just mailed them again, and will cross my fingers for a reply.
I have also changed the primary resource, so hopefully all should be good on your side,

cheers

Nick

[Jon Olav Vik]

Excellent, thanks!

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Nick Juty njuty@users.sf.net wrote:

Dear Jon,
Thanks again for your input for identifiers.org. We very much appreciate
your feedback!
In response to your bullets:

• This one is my fault. We have a 'primary' flag which should
  preferentially redirect to an up (primary) resource. In most cases this has
  been automatically assigned. For some reason, in this case, it has been
  assigned to a deprecated URL (a mirror that died, and was removed from our
  'live' linking). This will be followed up on our side, to ensure no other
  resources are assigned this way. * We actually have in place a daily
  check on all our links. The issue is follow up. For example it is very hard
  to find a 'person' to contact for some resources, and this is one of them.
  I have just mailed them again, and will cross my fingers for a reply.

I have now changed the primary resource, so hopefully all should be good
on your side,

cheers

Nick

• [bugs:#31] http://sourceforge.net/p/identifiers-org/bugs/31/ Broken
  genecards redirection?*

Status: open
Group: current
Created: Fri Nov 27, 2015 09:36 AM UTC by Jon Olav Vik
Last Updated: Fri Nov 27, 2015 09:38 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

http://identifiers.org/genecards/ABL1 redirects to
http://www6.unito.it/cards/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1
which for a week or so has been giving the error

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring
page http://identifiers.org/genecards/ABL1 seems to be wrong or
outdated. Please inform the author of that page
http://identifiers.org/genecards/ABL1 about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster
raffaele.calogero@unito.it.
Error 404
www6.unito.it
Fri Nov 27 11:01:05 2015
Apache/2.2.0 (Linux/SUSE)

Maybe the target for the redirection has changed its URL scheme; I don't
know. However, there are other, working locations listed at
http://identifiers.org/genecards/. On the other hand, two of the
locations listed don't work. Here's the status:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100413
works: http://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1
(it seems genecards_v3.hgc.jp redirects to genecards.org)

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100407
works: http://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100410
fails:
http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/genecards/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/resources/MIR:00100412
fails: http://genecards.bioinformatics.nl/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=ABL1

I don't know why the default redirect ends up at unito.it, which is not
on the above list. Hence I report the error here, though you might want to
approach the webmaster at unito.it.

Suggestions:

• Change the default redirect to a server that works. * Check whether the
  failing redirects above are permanently down, have changed their url
  scheme, or just have temporary problems.
• Automate a check of whether resources are still available, e.g. once a
  week.

Thanks!

Jon Olav

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[Nick Juty]

Just by way of an update - I have been in touch now and am awaiting confirmation that all mirrors will be retired, leaving a single resource for this information.

cheers

Nick