We have an NCL user who has posed the following question:
> Is there a way to set a read timeout in NCL when reading from an OPeNDAP url?
>
> Some of the TDS urls I'm reading from periodically slow down due to
> what it seems like are corrupted cache files. In the event this
> happens, I'd like the script to timeout after x seconds to free up
> resources.
So are there any facilities for setting a time limit for a read from an OPeNDAP
URL in the NetCDF OPeNDAP client library?
Thanks,
Dave Brown
NCL developer