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Re: Reading remote files through authenticating proxy

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  • Subject: Re: Reading remote files through authenticating proxy
  • Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:43:29 -0600


Jon Blower wrote:

Hi all,

Does anyone know how (using the Java NetCDF libs) I can read a remote NetCDF
or OpenDAP/DODS file through an authenticating proxy server using Basic
authentication?

Thanks, Jon

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Do this through the java.net library, eg:

   java.net.Authenticator.setDefault( new SimpleAuthenticator(name, pass));

public class SimpleAuthenticator
  extends Authenticator
{
  private String username,
                 password;
public SimpleAuthenticator(String username,String password) 
  {
     this.username = username;
     this.password = password;
  }
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() 
  {
     return new PasswordAuthentication(
            username,password.toCharArray());
  }
}


You can google Authenticator.setDefault, eg:

 http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip46.html
I should caution that at some point, netcdf-java may switch to using apache commons httpclient library when accessing OpenDAP. That uses a slightly different mechanism for authentication, but it wont be hard to switch, if and when that happens.