[thredds] To Catalog or not to catalog

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• Subject: [thredds] To Catalog or not to catalog
• From: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:48:17 -0700

Hi All:

I just ran into this, and it caused problems because of all proxying we do, and 
this produced a URL that wasn't proxied.

So, if I go to 

http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/

And choose the link for  "SST, Blended, Global, EXPERIMENTAL"

I get:

http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/Satellite/aggregsatBA/ssta/catalog.html

and then click on that takes me to 

http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/Satellite/aggregsatBA/ssta/catalog.html?dataset=satellite/BA/ssta/mday


Now if instead I choose the link for " FNMOC NOGAPS (1-Degree) Datasets/"

I get:

http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/FNMOC/NOGAPS/onedegree/catalog.html

and if I choose the top one for pressure I get:

http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/FNMOC/NOGAPS/onedegree/pressure/6hr/catalog.html

Note the "catalog" after the thredds, that I didn't get in the other case.  We 
have examples of the  same thing when the data are not featureCollections, so 
it is not specific to this.  Is there any reason for the different behavior in 
the URL, or when we should expect the extra term "catalog" and when we should 
not.  Is this because of the deeper nesting of the catalogs?

Thanks,

-Roy

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