Should be fixed as of rtracklayer 1.5.6 (and 1.4.1 in release). Actually, it
was due to a bug, where the page would crash if User-Agent wasn't supplied
in the header. This is soon to be fixed upstream, but I went ahead and
changed rtracklayer to pass its name as the User Agent. So everything should
work now.

Michael

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Michael Lawrence <mflawren@fhcrc.org> wrote:

> Just letting everyone know that rtracklayer is currently unable to interact
> with the UCSC browser. It seems that something has changed with the UCSC
> server, which is now refusing to process R HTTP requests for the main
> "hgTracks" page.
>
> I'm trying to get to the bottom of this. Thanks for your patience.
>
> Michael
>

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