diff --git a/client/pages/index.vue b/client/pages/index.vue
index 2001b7e24d2c8de6810bf8fafd642eb007d780ef..7f6077b103d7683e63102c0c8bc6517e898cfece 100644
--- a/client/pages/index.vue
+++ b/client/pages/index.vue
@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ export default {
   },
   async asyncData({ $axios, params, $auth }) {
     try {
-      const initmeta = await $axios.$get('/initmeta')
+      const data = {
+        initTableName: "initTable.hdf5"
+        // initTableName: "initTableTest1.hdf5"
+      };
+      const initmeta = await $axios.$post('/initmeta', data)
       return {
         initmeta,
       }
diff --git a/jass/models/inittable.py b/jass/models/inittable.py
index 4852e11059d2ddf4e7bbfe53f4e9f865c2790e6d..b25dad8ce392069e9680337821b1558e95dfaa56 100644
--- a/jass/models/inittable.py
+++ b/jass/models/inittable.py
@@ -28,9 +28,16 @@ class InitMeta(object):
 def get_inittable_meta(file_name):
     init_store = HDFStore(file_name, mode='r')
     nb_snps = init_store.get_storer("SumStatTab").nrows
+    name="Missing name"
+    desc="Missing description"
     init_store.close()
     nb_phenotypes = read_hdf(file_name, "PhenoList").shape[0]
-    return {"nb_snps":int(nb_snps), "nb_phenotypes":int(nb_phenotypes)}
+    return dict(
+        nb_snps=int(nb_snps),
+        nb_phenotypes=int(nb_phenotypes),
+        name=name,
+        desc=desc,
+    )
 
 def get_gwasname(file_name):
     return "_".join(os.path.basename(file_name).split("_")[0:3])
diff --git a/jass/server.py b/jass/server.py
index a39869b13b22b4ae51a7b55f9ab1e28732c77b82..2b6cbb58fecd7e21a79a70c8799041a7ee20bc4d 100644
--- a/jass/server.py
+++ b/jass/server.py
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ def phenotypes_list(init_table_name: InitTableNameModel):
     except FileNotFoundError as e:  # initTable does not exists
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail=str(e))
 
-@app.get("/api/initmeta")
-def inittable_meta():
+@app.post("/api/initmeta")
+def inittable_meta(init_table_name: InitTableNameModel):
     """Number of phenotype and SNPs"""
     return get_inittable_meta(os.path.join(config["DATA_DIR"], "initTable.hdf5"))
 
diff --git a/jass/test/test_server.py b/jass/test/test_server.py
index 6d5eec95cb9733ddb3430aeaffab96bd98c170e4..7172207031416a0b0b873062b50d798b51ddb5e6 100644
--- a/jass/test/test_server.py
+++ b/jass/test/test_server.py
@@ -59,8 +59,16 @@ class TestDefaultController(JassWebClientTestCase):
         self.assert200(response, "Response body is : " + response.content.decode("utf-8"))
 
     def test_initmeta(self):
-        response = self.testing_client.get("/api/initmeta")
+        response = self.testing_client.post("/api/initmeta", json={})
         self.assert200(response, "Response body is : " + response.content.decode("utf-8"))
+        respMain = json.loads(response.content.decode("utf-8"))
+
+        response = self.testing_client.post("/api/initmeta", json={"initTableName": "initTableTest1.hdf5"})
+        self.assert200(response, "Response body is : " + response.content.decode("utf-8"))
+        respT1 = json.loads(response.content.decode("utf-8"))
+
+        self.assertNotEqual(respT1, respMain)
+        self.assertSetEqual(set(respMain.keys()), {'nb_phenotypes', 'nb_snps', 'name', 'desc'})
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":