#390 Improved error messages for database (mis)configuration
> DB embl [ type: N method: srswww format: embl release: "EBI"
> url: "http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srsbin/cgi-bin/wgetz?%s"
> comment: "EMBL from the EBI" ]
The "?%s" at the end of the URL is the problem. "%s" is used for method:
url to include the sequence ID in the search. Srswww and othe rmethods
know how to build specific SRS webserver queries.
> DB swissprot [ type: P method: srswww format: swiss release: "EBI"
> url: "http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srsbin/cgi-bin/wgetz";
> comment: "SWISSPROT from the EBI" ]
This time the problem is the stray ';' at tghe end of the url: ... this
stops EMBOSS finding the trailing '"' and so tghe comment has been
included in the URL.
> DB sw [ type: P method: srswww format: swiss release: "EBI"
> url: "http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srsbin/cgi-bin/wgetz";
> dbalias: "SWISSPROT"
> comment: "SWISSPROT from the EBI" ]
That ';' again ... well done for gettig the dbalias right. dbalias: is
required when the database name you choose is not the same as the name
on the SRS server (embl and swissprot both exist on the server)
> DB uniprot [ type: P method: srswww format: swiss release: "EBI"
> url: "http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srsbin/cgi-bin/wgetz";
> comment: "UNIPROT from the EBI" ]
The ';' again. Uniprot exists so again no dbalias is needed.
We will try to improve our error messages in these cases so you can see
more detail on why the query fails. We should be able to find some SRS
error message where the entries are not found, and return more detail
where the query fails completely.
