Re: [Samtools-devel] Indexing a BAM Index (BAI)

[Jim R. <jro...@br...>]

I'm not sure this will work with binary files,  I just did a test with 
our apache server and it did not compress the bai file. However,  I just 
added the "Accept-encoding:gzip" header so if you can configure your 
server to do the compression it should work. Not everyone will have 
access or permissions to configure their servers, however, so I will 
keep the .gz option.   The compression I'm getting is on the order of 
2x-3x so its probably worthwhile.

Jim

> Shouldn't that be handled by http? i.e if IGV sets "Accept-encoding: 
> gzip" in the request for the bai file, then the remote http server is 
> free to respond with "Content-encoding: gzip" and compress the response.
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:01 PM Jim Robinson 
> <jro...@br... <mailto:jro...@br...>> wrote: