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Hi Rich, > I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with > TDS4.0 running locally serving local data on my PC. > > In the end, I figured out that TDS4.0 requires forward slashes instead > of backward slashes. So > > This works: <netcdf > location="c:/rps/cf/coastwatch/2009_009_1710_aqua_ex1_Rrs667.hdf"/> > > This doesn't: <netcdf > location="c:\rps\cf\coastwatch\2009_009_1710_aqua_ex1_Rrs667.hdf"/> I'm surprised at that and on a quick look at the code didn't find anything that looked like it would prohibit backslashes. I'll dig deeper and look for the culprit. > Has it always been this way? I'm not sure where 3.17 stands on this. At one point in 3.x land, we definitely did not allow backslashes in the path. I thought backslashes were allowed in 3.x and 4.0 but something may have snuck back in. > I tried to find documentation on this, but probably didn't look hard enough. I'm guessing a hard look would find that this detail is not in the documentation. I'll check and fix that if it is the case. > I thought I had used backwards slashes in earlier versions, but perhaps not. > > I'm passing this along just in case it's a bug. Thanks. Definitely a bug. Ethan Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FYW-620774 Department: Support THREDDS Priority: Normal Status: Open