ISA-tools/BioInvIndex — Issue #49: Cope with FTP/HTTP links better in web application
Author: eamonnmag
Created: 2012-02-19 22:09:18+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature Request, Priority Task

At present, FTP and HTTP(S) links are sort of ignored in the web view. If the ISAtab archive references an external uri, something which won't be managed by the data manager in terms of deciding where to distribute the files, we should find a way to make the link out to these data files.

** Approach **
The approach would work by reading these external file locations and pointing to the directory which holds the listing for these files. e.g. ftp://myftpserver.com/data/myftp.txt would point to ftp://myftpserver.com/data/

In this way, we don't link to individual files (which would create too many links).