FTP and command line access in Galaxy - galaxy-user

22 Jun 2011


      Nate,
The Galaxy's ability to pull files with user/password from FTP sites as a client is great.
However, I need to pull data from an HTTP site at a sequencing center with user/password (already tried to get them to set up an FTP server, no luck). Any way to do this?
If not, would it be easy to add?
Regards,
Curtis
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Hi Nate,
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We'd like to set up our local Galaxy to be able to import data (fastq
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sequences) from an ftp site (with a username/password)  into a user's
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account. Does Galaxy support FTP or would we have to write a wrapper
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script to do it via HTTP and use the standard data connection methods as
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described in http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/DataSources?
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Hi Steve,
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You can actually put FTP URLs directly in the URL/paste box on the
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upload form.  With a username and password, the format would be:
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ftp://user:pass@example.org/path/to/file.ext
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I haven't tested that the user/pass bit works, but it should.
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Yep. It works. Thanks for the tip!