Re: [netcdfgroup] ncdump (snapshot2009102000) missing some coordinate variables for OPeNDAP data set

[John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jennifer Adams wrote:

> I don't know about other OPeNDAP servers, but GDS won't allow a .dods 
> request without any constraints. 

the TDS doesnt care if there are constraints or not, but it will refuse requests larger than a configurable size. The default i think is 500 Mb for binary, and 50 Mb for ascii. 

> > I guess I'm not happy about having to tell users they need to add 
> > something in order to use URL's which have worked for a number of 
> > years, or about having to change application code so it recognizes and 
> > passes a prefix on through to the open-nc routine.
> I agree completely.

the netcdf-java opendap client doesnt support prefixes. in fact, it doesnt 
allow you to open a constrained dataset. you open the entire dataset, then send 
constraints to read the data. the idea is to treat a remote dataset the same as 
a local dataset. sometimes that doesnt work very well, but mostly it works ok, 
and its often a great advantage to the application who only sees the netcdf API.