Can you send your changes (or the complete files)
to me at dmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? I want to see what you did.
=Dennis Heimbigner
Unidata
Ying at NCCS wrote:
Hi John,
Sorry if this is not the right place to post this message.
I have problem to use netcdf java (along with opendap.jar etc) to
access a remote data (via opendap) that requires basic authentication.
Basic authentication does not provide security to the dataset ---but
just a sort of limitation for public access. For example, a group
researchers want to share datasets that are still under QC, and they
certainly want to make sure it is not perceived as data product for
all. Anyway popular data analysis software like GrADS and Ferret can
all handle URL like http://usr:pass@... to read data. And that was the
way I set up servers while I was in Hawaii. Right now, using matlab
(if it calls use netCDF java lib) application and GISS Panoply can not
read opendap that requires basic authentication.
It seems to me that opendap-2.2.jar (by OPENDAP group) and
netcdf-4.2.jar (by UNIDATA group) (specifically opendap.dap.DConnect2
and ucar.nc2.dataset.NetCdfDataset ) need basic authentication
credential enabled.
I have fixed the problem but it is rather ugly -:) for distribution.
I wonder if you developers can put this feature in your development or
if there is any tip to share with me that it can be handled in the main
method (like to create a static httpClient object that can take care all
the authentication challenge all the way down to the lib.
Many thanks..
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