[thredds] FMRC URL's: dataset name now matters in TDS 4.2

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• Subject: [thredds] FMRC URL's: dataset name now matters in TDS 4.2
• From: "John Maurer, IV" <jmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:13:41 -1000

Hi All,
Prior to TDS 4.2, you used to be able to change the name of a dataset without 
adversely affecting the URL to its FMRC components (Best Time Series, Constant 
Forecast, etc.). Although the title is used to construct the URL, everything up 
to the final _best.ncd used to be arbitrary. Now I'm finding that a change in 
the dataset name will break the FMRC URL's. For example:


http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/WRF_Oahu_Regional_Atmospheric_Model_(1.5km)_best.ncd


The name gets appended to _best.ncd: "WRF Oahu Regional Atmospheric Model 
(1.5km)". It used to not matter what went before _best.ncd, and in fact you 
could even just use the following URL:


http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/_best.ncd


Now if I change that name to something else (e.g. "WRF Oahu Regional 
Atmospheric Model"), the old URL breaks because it's now expecting the 
following:


http://oos.soest.hawaii.edu/thredds/dodsC/hioos/model/atm/wrf_oa/WRF_Oahu_Regional_Atmospheric_Model_best.ncd


Is this the new way it will behave or is it a bug that can be fixed?
Thanks!,
John Maurer
Hawaii Ocean Observing System (HiOOS)
University of Hawaii at Mano

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