Thanks Benno. Encoding the ampersands did the trick. This allows us to have
the viewer pull up the selected dataset, not just switch to the viewer, a nice
new feature of the TDS.
-Roy
On Nov 27, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Benno Blumenthal wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> Just in case you have not done this, you might want to run your file
> through an XML parser (firefox would probably do) to make sure the url
> is properly escaped for XML -- & is a special character and usually
> needs to be escaped for the XML parser.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Benno
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Roy Mendelssohn
> <Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Guys:
>>
>> I have been testing the Viewer options, where you add to the dataset lines
>> such as:
>>
>> <property name="viewer"
>> value="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/,MyViewer"/>
>>
>> I am trying to make it so the link not only goes to the particular viewer
>> but comes up with that dataset. Our Coastwatch browser wants a lot of info,
>> so if I do
>>
>> <property name="viewer"
>> value="http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/coastwatch/CWBrowser.jsp,Coastwatch"/>
>>
>> all is fine but while I get the browser I am not at the selected dataset.
>> If I however try what I would like to try:
>>
>> <property name="viewer"
>> value="http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/coastwatch/CWBrowser.jsp?edit=Grid+Data&gridDataSet=SST%2C+Blended%2C+0.1+degrees%2C+Global%2C+EXPERIMENTAL*&gridTimePeriod=1+day&gridCenteredTime=2010-11-25+12%3A00%3A00&gridCenteredTime_Year=2010&gridCenteredTime_Month=11&gridCenteredTime_Day=25&gridCenteredTime_Time=12%3A00%3A00&gridUnits=degree+C&gridPalette=Rainbow&gridPaletteScale=Linear&gridPaletteMin=8.0&gridPaletteMax=32.0&gridTimeSeriesLon=&gridTimeSeriesLat=&synchronizeTimes=true,Coastwatch"/>
>>
>> it fails in the sense that an error is thrown trying to access the dataset
>> html page. So the question is, is there a maximum length to the URLs
>> allowed, or am I doing something stupid and if I could only see it all would
>> be well (such as you don't want space and the like encoded and I should
>> unencode them). You can test this yourself, as it doesn't really matter
>> what the actual dataset is.
>>
>> BTW, this is with the latest TDS 4.2 running on Ubuntu.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Roy
>>
>>
>>
>>
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