ok, having actually read your message below, it appears that the opendap
call is failing, so the netcdf-java tries an HTTP request that needs the
getRange() capabity. to remove that possibility, change your URL from
http://etc to dods://etc.
an error message may be coming out in your logs (if that is set up). you
might try following it in the debugger if you can and see why it fails.
also check that it really is succeeding in the ToolsUI at the exact time
its failing in you code.
im at a conference so cant help much more till next week...
Jon Blower wrote:
Further information on this: I can connect successfully to the server
in question using the toolsUI-2.2.22.jar, but I still can't via my own
application. I've had a quick look at the code for HttpClientManager
and HTTPRandomAccessFile and perhaps there is a call to
setDoAuthentication() missing?
Cheers, Jon
On Dec 13, 2007 9:12 PM, Jon Blower <jdb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks John, and everyone else who replied.
I'm now experimenting with trying to get OPeNDAP authentication
working in version 2.2.22. I have a very simple main() method that
simply tries to open a NetcdfDataset from an OPeNDAP URL, where the
OPeNDAP server requires authentication:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
HttpClientManager.init(new CredentialsProvider(){
public Credentials getCredentials(AuthScheme scheme,
String host, int port, boolean proxy)
throws CredentialsNotAvailableException
{
System.out.println("Called Credentials Provider!");
throw new CredentialsNotAvailableException();
}
}, null);
NetcdfDataset nc = NetcdfDataset.openDataset("http://myurl";);
nc.close();
}
When I run this I get an error message:
Server does not support byte Ranges
at
ucar.unidata.io.http.HTTPRandomAccessFile.<init>(HTTPRandomAccessFile.java:99)
which, having delved through the nj22 code, actually just means that
the call to get the value of the Accept-Ranges header does not return
what is expected. I assume that the real reason that the call fails
is that the server requires authentication. The simple
CredentialsProvider that I have written in the above code never gets
called.
Could anyone please shed some light on this, or perhaps provide a code
snippet of the right way to go about this?
Thanks very much,
Jon
On Nov 26, 2007 7:24 PM, John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jon:
ucar.nc2.dataset.HttpClientManager is in 2.2.22 release. I beleive it was added
at 2.2.19.
Jon Blower wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to read data from an authenticated OPeNDAP server. I've
found the page
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/reference/HTTPauthentication.html,
which says that I should create a CredentialsProvider and register it
using ucar.nc2.dataset.HttpClientManager.init(). However, there is no
class called HttpClientManager in the ucar.nc2.dataset package, or
indeed anywhere in the nj22 distribution that I can see.
What is the best way to read data from authenticated OPeNDAP servers?
I am using nj22 version 2.2.16.
Thanks, Jon
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