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Hi... It recently came to our attention that the ADDE protocol behaves differently than we were led to believe when the AddeURLConnection class was coded: the ADDE servers resolve names in a "case-sensitive" manner. Although McIDAS clients (command line) always send upper-case letters, there is now at least one site that has mixed and/or lower case letters in dataset names. THerefore, we are proposing a change to the AddeURLConnection class to _not_ convert the dataset/group information to uppercase before sending along to the server. We know that this may break existing properties files or scripts or programs that have been set up assuming that the conversion to upper-case would be made by AddeURLConnection before sending the request to the ADDE server. We welcome your comments, but feel this change must be made -- it's theproverbial "rock and a hard place"...and we doubt we'd be able to convince data providers to change.
tom & don -- Tom Whittaker (tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies Phone/VoiceMail: 608.262.2759
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