[thredds] TDS restricted data access and Firefox

[John Caron]

Hi Egil:

TDS release 4.0 will remove the circular redirect. We hope to have a stable release by this summer. 
Thanks for reporting the problem.

John

Egil Støren wrote:
> Dear THREDDS developer community,
> 
> The implementation of restricted access to selected datasets in TDS is 
> relying on circular redirect which generates an error message when using 
> a Firefox web server as client. Although this obstacle is easily 
> overcome by just pushing a "Try again" button on the error message 
> window, not all users will do this, and it is anyway annoying to meet 
> this window.
> 
> This feature/bug is described in 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/reference/RestrictedAccess.html.
> According to this document, there are no workaround *yet*. Are there any 
> plans to release a version of TDS where this issue is solved?
> 
> If we can expect such a release within a reasonable time, we can live 
> with the situation until then. Otherwise we have to find some solution 
> by other means, as we think many of our clients are using Firefox.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>     Egil Støren
>     The Norwegian Meteorological Institute
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