Re: [thredds] HTTPS support for remote catalogs

Thanks, Dennis!

US gov-t agencies have a mandate to transition web services away from HTTP
to HTTPS.
Looking forward to this update - do you have a rough ETA?

Georgi


On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:27 PM, dmh@xxxxxxxx <dmh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I checked the code and it indeed only supports HTTP.
> I will open a ticket on this and have it fixed.
> Thank you for finding this.
> =Dennis Heimbigner
>  Unidata
>
> On 11/10/2016 3:01 PM, Georgi Kostov - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
>
>> Hello, THREDDS list,
>>
>>
>> We have a working catalogRef entry for a remote service which looks like
>> this:
>>
>>   <catalogRef name="ABC"
>>
>>     xlink:title="ABC dataset"
>>
>>     xlink:href="http://host.domain.gov/thredds/catalog/abc/catalog.xml";
>> />
>>
>>
>> When I change the scheme in the URL from HTTP to HTTPS (i.e.
>> xlink:href=”https://...) I get the following error:
>>
>>
>> “HTTP Status 400 - Bad request: The "catalogUri" field must be an HTTP
>> URI.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> typeStatus report
>>
>> messageBad request: The "catalogUri" field must be an HTTP URI.
>>
>> descriptionThe request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect.”
>>
>>
>> The results are the same on both TDS 4.2 and 4.3 (on my end).
>>
>> They sit behind Apache httpd, which proxies for the tomcat instances.
>>
>> The remote service is TDS 4.2.
>>
>> My question is whether TDS remote catalog definitions support
>> HTTPS-based service URLs.
>>
>> If so, then what is missing from my catalog xmls?
>>
>> If not, then is there a later version of TDS that provides such support?
>>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Georgi
>>
>>
>>
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