Re: [thredds] OPeNDAP authentication

[John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pauline Mak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any documentation on OPeNDAP/G, or THREDDS with X509 
> documentation?  We're interested in using authentication (and 
> naturally, authorisation) for some of our datasets.  I would like to 
> see if I can do a test setup over here, but I can't seem to find any 
> documentation on doing this...  Interestingly, does OPeNDAP client 
> libraries already support this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Pauline.
For TDS, you can use standard Tomcat authentication, see authentication 
section of this:

 
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.0/reference/index.html

Im guessing same for Hyrax. OPeNDAP client libraries should support 
this, as its based on standard HTTP mechanism.