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Daryl, I looked into the problem of missing commas after the NaN values. It's a small bug in the code, and we'll have it rectified on the motherlode:9080 server in the next developer release, probably tomorrow. Thanks for reporting it to us. -Lansing On 4/22/2013 1:58 PM, daryl herzmann wrote: > New Client Reply: motherload thredds throwing Error 500 ISE > > Lansing, > > So I have found another problem. Check out this example URI: > > http://motherlode.ucar.edu:9080/thredds/ncss/grid/grib/NCEP/GFS/Global_0p5deg/files/GFS_Global_0p5deg_20130422_0600.grib2?var=Precipitable_water_entire_atmosphere&var=Convective_inhibition_surface&var=Total_precipitation_surface_Mixed_intervals_Accumulation&var=Convective_precipitation_surface_Mixed_intervals_Accumulation&var=Convective_available_potential_energy_surface&latitude=41.3669944444&longitude=-91.140575&temporal=all&vertCoord=&accept=csv&point=true > > The NaN values don't have commas next to them. > > daryl > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Unidata THREDDS Support wrote: > >> 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 >> >> Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OIJ-420182 Department: Support THREDDS Priority: Normal Status: Open