[bioontology-support] I detected some potential problems of the REST service

[Paul R Alexander]

Shuai,

Thanks for contacting us and pointing out that problem. We've fixed it 
and you shouldn't see the extra XML any more.

Best,
Paul R Alexander
Web / UI Developer
NCBO BioPortal
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research


On Wed Aug  3 14:48:45 2011, Shuai Zheng wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
> 
> I am a user of your system and I enjoyed it very much. Recently, I 
> detected some potential problems of your system:
> 
> When I issue the term service request (In fact, other terms also suffer 
> the same problem, try several times you may see the different responses):
> 
> http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/concepts/45400?conceptid=Malignant_Cell&apikey=de033a09-a868-42b3-b7dc-8bb4804e1071 
> <http://rest.bioontology.org/bioportal/concepts/45400?conceptid=Malignant_Cell&apikey=de033a09-a868-42b3-b7dc-8bb4804e1071>
> 
> I can get two different files, and they are responded randomly. One is 
> pretty large, which has 1.25 MB, another one is much smaller, which only 
> has 64.1 KB.
> 
> It seems that the smaller one is what I used before. And the larger one 
> emerges recently. I guess you may opened different servers, but their 
> settings are different.
> 
> I personally regard the smaller one as the "correct" one, since the 
> bigger one contains two much redundant information.
> 
> I might detected a problem, or you can provide me a explanation so I can 
> make changes on my own code. I am looking forward to your response.
> 
> PS: I attach the two files.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Shuai Zheng
> 
> 
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