[IDV #NKF-983839]: authentication window snafus

> Friday I am giving a pitch at AGU about how great IDV is for YOTC.
> New laptop. Preparing talk.
> Trying to connect to
> dods://rda.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/aggregations/g/ds629.2/0/best
> 
> 
> First time authentication window has no password slot:
> [cid:967764FF-BE6B-4311-99EE-79A9EC6671B1]
> 
> Quit. Restart.
> Next time no slots at all:
> [cid:108EEAFF-B2D0-4CF3-8E11-5264EA8EAF6F]
> 
> 
\
Brian,
       I am at the UCAR booth all day today, you can stop by and I will be try 
to figure out the problem.

Yuan
> 
> Contained exception:HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.InvalidCredentialsException: HTTP/1.1 401 
> Unauthorized
> at opendap.dap.DConnect2.openConnection(DConnect2.java:267)
> at opendap.dap.DConnect2.getDDS(DConnect2.java:563)
> at opendap.dap.DConnect2.getDDS(DConnect2.java:537)
> at ucar.nc2.dods.DODSNetcdfFile.<init>(DODSNetcdfFile.java:240)
> at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
> at 
> sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
> at 
> sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
> at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
> at 
> ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDodsByReflection(NetcdfDataset.java:1031)
> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDODS(NetcdfDataset.java:980)
> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:664)
> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:421)
> at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:516)
> at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:117)
> at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:103)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1156)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1178)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterUnpersistence(GeoGridDataSource.java:407)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.idv.IdvPersistenceManager$18.run(IdvPersistenceManager.java:3539)
> at visad.util.ThreadManager$1.run(ThreadManager.java:292)
> at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
> at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
> at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
> Exception thrown at:
> Grid data source failed making data set: 
> dods://rda.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/aggregations/g/ds629.1/9/best
> ucar.unidata.util.WrapperException: Grid data source failed making data set: 
> dods://rda.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/aggregations/g/ds629.1/9/bestjava.io.IOException:
>  java.io.IOException: opendap.dap.DAP2Exception: 
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.InvalidCredentialsException: HTTP/1.1 401 
> Unauthorized
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1165)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1178)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterUnpersistence(GeoGridDataSource.java:407)
> at 
> ucar.unidata.idv.IdvPersistenceManager$18.run(IdvPersistenceManager.java:3539)
> at visad.util.ThreadManager$1.run(ThreadManager.java:292)
> at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
> at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
> at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I log in as new user with virgin account and it works ok.
> But new-user account has no authentication.xml I can copy from its
> DefaultIDV directory at the end of all these exercises.
> 
> So - it works sometimes. For new users. But not for me.
> 
> Some cruft or corruption in main.xml? Throw it out and start from scratch?
> 
> These little things are so discouraging.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NKF-983839
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open