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Daryl, They're actually seem to be a couple of different issues, and while I've sorted at least one thing out, I'm currently at an impasse. The "easy" problem has to do with the size of a request. The thredds.ucar.edu server (which is a tds 4.3 edition) gives a 403 forbidden error. While the error message would suggest read/write/authentication issues, the real problem is that the subset is too large and the server is refusing to serve it up. I've put in a JIRA ticket to make a nicer error-handling catch: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/TDS-410 The 404 error is more problematic. However, could you tell me how you generated the link you send in your last e-mail? Are you just clicking through the catalog on motherlode and getting there, or are you generating the url artificially and sending the request independently? Thanks, Lansing On 4/22/2013 1:20 PM, daryl herzmann wrote: > New Client Reply: motherload thredds throwing Error 500 ISE > > Hi, > > Are you seeing the ISEs logged on the server? For example, this is > erroring again: > > http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km/conduit/catalog.html > > For the :9080 URL, I see there is a small difference in the file > directory: > > http://motherlode.ucar.edu:9080/thredds/ncss/grid/grib/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km > vs > http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/ncss/grid/fmrc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km > > daryl > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Unidata THREDDS Support wrote: > >> Daryl, >> >> I just went and looked up the dataset you referenced: >> >> http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/grib/NCEP/RAP/CONUS_13km/catalog.html >> >> and didn't have any trouble pulling down data. It's possible you were >> having trouble hitting the motherlode:port url, since we were having >> server issues this week. Try the above and let me know if you're having >> problems. >> >> Also, how did you generate the url in the support e-mail you sent? It does >> indeed generate a 404, but I couldn't recreate it here. >> >> -Lansing >> >>> Hi Lansing, >>> >>> Thanks for the suggestion. I am having difficult getting URLs like this >>> to work: >>> >>> http://motherlode.ucar.edu:9080/thredds/ncss/grid/fmrc/NCEP/RAP/CONUS_13km/runs/NCEP-RAP-CONUS_13km_RUN_2013-04-16T10:00:00Z?var=Precipitable_water&var=Convective_inhibition_surface&var=Large_scale_precipitation_non-convective&var=Convective_precipitation&var=Convective_available_potential_energy_surface&latitude=42.4690972222&longitude=-93.2650805556&temporal=all&vertCoord=&accept=csv&point=true >>> >>> I tried a test via the website and get an exception >>> >>> http://motherlode.ucar.edu:9080/thredds/ncss/grid/grib/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km/conduit/best?var=Albedo_surface&latitude=44.1095&longitude=-99.4&time_start=2013-03-16T00%3A00%3A00Z&time_end=2013-04-20T06%3A00%3A00Z&vertCoord=&accept=csv >>> >>> daryl >>> >>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Unidata THREDDS Support wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Daryl, >>>> >>>> I'm not yet sure what is going on here, but I noticed that the equivalent >>>> link on our 4.3 server is working just fine: >>>> >>>> http://motherlode.ucar.edu:9080/thredds/catalog/grib/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km/conduit/catalog.html >>>> >>>> Do you have a need for the data to be served out through a 4.2 server, or >>>> can you use the (new and improved) 4.3 server? >>>> >>>> -Lansing >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Since yesterday sometime, I have been getting ISEs on motherlode for some >>>>> NCEP data. For example: >>>>> >>>>> http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km/conduit/catalog.html >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> daryl >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> /** >>>>> * Daryl Herzmann >>>>> * Assistant Scientist -- Iowa Environmental Mesonet >>>>> * http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu >>>>> */ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ticket Details >>>> =================== >>>> Ticket ID: OIJ-420182 >>>> Department: Support THREDDS >>>> Priority: Normal >>>> Status: Open >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> /** >>> * Daryl Herzmann >>> * Assistant Scientist -- Iowa Environmental Mesonet >>> * http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu >>> */ >>> >>> >> >> Ticket Details >> =================== >> Ticket ID: OIJ-420182 >> Department: Support THREDDS >> Priority: Normal >> Status: Open >> >> Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OIJ-420182 Department: Support THREDDS Priority: Normal Status: Open