Hi John (Caron),
We have a problem using Panoply to access the following data via TDS/opendap
http://gissoutput.nccs.nasa.gov/thredds/catalog/giss/public/catalog.html?dataset=giss/public/JAN1950.aijE024ia_dv_tr.nc
And I also find
NetCDF-Java ToolsUI (webstart) also failed...
Testing on Ferret and GrADD all worked fine.
Robert Schmunk (Panoply developer at GISS/NASA) has this to say
"In trying to get a better grip on what might be the problem in the Java
libraries,
I have found that the Apache httpclient library that ships in the
netCDF-Java
distribution is rather old, version 3.1 rather than the current 4.1.1. Some
of the
referenced classes, in fact entire packages, seem to have been refactored
and
renamed. For example, it looks like what used to
be "org.apache.commons.httpclient"
is now various subpackages of "org.apache.http.*".
This likely explains why Unidata have indicated that they are re-factoring
the
portion of their code which involves HTTP connections, and why it is taking
longer
than expected for a fix to just the one authentication bug that I reported.
I'm trying to poke around in the source code for httpclient 3.1 to see if I
can
figure out why the "server failed to respond" error message is being
reported.
I'm not sure about it yet, but it's possible that it is getting a response
but
when it's trying to read and parse from an InputStream, it's somehow
reading 0
characters."
