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[netCDF #TMR-458993]: Failure to handle GDS server-side analysis URL with netcdf 4.3.2

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  • Subject: [netCDF #TMR-458993]: Failure to handle GDS server-side analysis URL with netcdf 4.3.2
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:09:45 -0600
The .dods extension is how the server knows you
want the data rather than just the metadata (the DDS).
The critical point is that the server you are accessing
is requiring a constraint expression (e.g. ?time).
This is probably the source of the problem you are seeing.
if you do simple ncdump of the url, there is no constraint attached
so the server gives back that error message.
As you say, this is to prevent someone from trying to download
the whole dataset.

The simplest work around is to always ask for a specific variable
to ncdump using the -v flag.


=Dennis Heimbigner
  Unidata


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: TMR-458993
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Urgent
Status: Closed