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[idvusers] http based .nc retrieval issue in IDV 2.4

In the past I have used IDV to load and view data from a netcdf file (CF-compliant) accessed over http (I use Tomcat as the web server, not that that should matter). this is NOT an opendap server in any way. 

Now, in IDV 2.4, this is failing.  I get this error:

java.io.IOException: Server does not support byte Ranges
at ucar .unidata.io.http.HTTPRandomAccessFile.<init>(HTTPRandomAccessFile.java: 99) at ucar .unidata.io.http.HTTPRandomAccessFile.<init>(HTTPRandomAccessFile.java: 78) 
        at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.getRaf(NetcdfFile.java:283)
        at ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.open(NetcdfFile.java:264)
        at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openFile(NetcdfDataset.java:335)
For debug, I put tcpmon in between IDV and my web server. When IDV issues this request 

HEAD /uwme/netcdf/2007031700-gasp-d2.nc.dds HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Java/1.5.0_13
Host: localhost:8080
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Connection: keep-alive
it gets this response (since we have no .dds file nor servlet mapped to service the url) 

HTTP/1.1 404 /uwme/netcdf/2007031700-gasp-d2.nc.dds
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:38:17 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora)
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
It appears as if the 404 response is throwing the IDV error. Weird thing is that there is no 'byte range' http header in the request??
Looking at the stack trace above, maybe the issue lies in the netcdf- java package, since IT contains the HttpRandomAccessFile class??? 

Any help appreciated.
PS: If I download a nc file from my web site using a browser and then load that from local disk in IDV, the file loads OK. 


Stuart