[thredds] Maximum length of viewer URL

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• Subject: [thredds] Maximum length of viewer URL
• From: Roy Mendelssohn <Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:51:07 -0800

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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