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[IDV #RJZ-591746]: Authentication dialogs - unreliable, flaky, or absent.

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  • Subject: [IDV #RJZ-591746]: Authentication dialogs - unreliable, flaky, or absent.
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:08:03 -0600
> When I open IDV and try to load this dataset URL:
> dods://rda.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/aggregations/ds629.2/0/best
> I get this error:
> 
> "Creating data source
> Grid data source failed making data set: 
> dods://rda.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/aggregations/ds629.2/0/best
> HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized"
> 
> 
> Some past times, I have been offered an authentication dialog, which  has 
> worked.
> 

When I tried, I did get the dialog window popup. I can only guess the server 
might be down when
you tried to load the dataset.


Yuan
> 
> 
> Still other times past times, like earlier this hour, I got partial 
> authentication dialogs.
> Like this:
> Two windows pop up.
> One with no username:
> [cid:D92F124D-0605-4C7E-B582-19297835E13E@hsd1.co.comcast.net.]
> 
> The other totally scrunched:
> [cid:C8E0168A-7E59-4167-93A8-8F9667FB76DA@hsd1.co.comcast.net.]
> 
> 
> expanding that one, it has neither password nor username boxes:
> [cid:5A5460E6-EFB5-42A0-BFAB-5C15B4B95554@hsd1.co.comcast.net.]
> 
> Whole session hangs up.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RJZ-591746
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed