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scufl2info

Provides reasonable guesses to scufl2 Linked Data

This service used to run at http://guess.taverna.org.uk/ before moving to Apache infrastructure. Apache does not have a way to host servlets (as scufl2-info is implemented as), so temporarily this uses a slow cgi-bin hack.

TODO: Rewrite as a python CGI-script?

/scufl2info/ is redirected to from auto-generated URLs like http://ns.taverna.org.uk/2011/run/385c794c-ba11-4007-a5b5-502ba8d14263/ - see:

.htaccess redirects to /cgi-bin/scufl2info.cgi which executes the jar of scufl2-info - see the scufl2-info README for details.

Note that as the cgi-bin script has a very slow startup (~ 4 seconds/request), /scufl2info/ and /cgi-bin/ are is excluded in robots.txt.

UPDATE 2015-01-16: The cgi-bin script is very unreliable and gives Internal Server Error on 60% of requests. Probably killing apache.org server.. so changed .htaccess back to redirecting to myGrid-hosted http://guess.taverna.org.uk/

TODO: Rewrite in Python cgi-bin or move webapp to appspot.com