remote Level II Radar source in IDV

[Jeff McWhirter]

Hi Lan,


 >[Remote data server for Level II]

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>This feature is exactly what we are looking for. When do you think this
>would be released? Would there be a beta version that will be available
>sooner? 
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I'll defer that to John Caron (the THREDDS project manager). John, any 
ideas about a timeline for this?

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 >[THREDDS catalog error]

>Is this a bug?
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Yes, it is. We are trying to read the version attribute as a numeric 
value. The catalogs it fails on has a version
like 1.0.1 This has been fixed in our development version.

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>Could you please explain a little more about the http based access? What
>needs to be done for this approach? Since our goal is to provide the
>Level-II data to the public instead of just researchers at Purdue, the
>shared file system solution probably won't work here.
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I was just thinking that we could do a file read via http like we can do 
for netcdf files. Right now the
code does not support handling a url. I will look into this but I think 
there would be  some performance
hits due to the nature of the reading of the data (lots of round trips 
to the http server).


-Jeff