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Thanks for clearing that up. For the record I agree with Dom in that if there is no extra information in the XML manifest, a WCS should just be able to return a single NetCDF file. I guess there might be an issue that a client needs to know whether it is getting an XML file or NetCDF file. I'm not familiar with WCS 1.1.0 but maybe the client could detect the MIME type of the response or perhaps the client could explicitly request whether or not to obtain a manifest. Jon On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Dominic Lowe <d.lowe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jon, To give some background on this - I put forward a change request to the WCS group suggesting that we allow a WCS to return a single file with no accompanying XML manifest. This was the standard functionality of WCS 1.0.0 but was removed for version 1.1.0. Currently (1.1.0) a WCS must request with a Multipart MIME or with a Coverages XML document that points to the coverage file(s). Unlike 1.0.0 there is no option to just return a single file (netcdf in this case). I felt that both these other options required more effort on the part of the consumer (effort that may be worthwhile in some cases, but may just be additional overhead in other cases). Therefore I would like to see the simple response reinstated. So unadorned in this sense means without the XML manifest, as opposed to without CF metadata. Here is the change request: http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=23130&version=1 Cheers, Dom
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