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>From: "Dan Bramer" <address@hidden> >Organization: UIUC >Keywords: 200402202148.i1KLm7rV027308 THREDDS catalog Hi Dan- >I do not know if this is the first or the three hundredth time you've heard >this, but incase its the former, I though you should know that for some >reason the Data Sources available under the cataloged Data tab in the Data >Source Selector is acting 'funny.' By funny, I mean: > >I am getting shut out of motherlode catalogs (unknown xml error) >Entries for Other catalogs giving 'Error creating data source' error >Exception printed below. What is the URL of the catalog you are accessing? Not all catalog datasources are compatible with the IDV. This looks like a catalog version problem though. >ucar.unidata.data.BadDataException: Error creating data source:DODS.Grid >with:http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.derived/other_ga >uss/csulftop.mon.inter.std.nc >ucar.unidata.util.WrapperExceptionjava.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP >response code: 500 for URL: >http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.derived/other_gauss/c >sulftop.mon.inter.std.nc.dds? >java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL: >http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.derived/other_gauss/c >sulftop.mon.inter.std.nc.dds? > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:662) > at >ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer. >java:3686) > at >ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.ja >va:3654) > at >ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.handleAction(IntegratedDataViewer.java >:3532) > at >ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.handleAction(IntegratedDataViewer.java >:3495) > at >ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.handleActionsInThread(XmlChooser.java:40 >4) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser$4.run(XmlChooser.java:389) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$1.run(Misc.java:1059) > >Just thought you should know. There was a problem with the real time model data for a while this weekend, but this looks like a different dataset that you are going after. Don Murray NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.