I agree with Nathan, it looks like you have curl verbosity set. Can you show your .dodsrc file (suitably censored)? =Dennis Heimbigner Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QLD-815319 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly 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.