[gradsusr] Impending shutdown of GDS server nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods

Thu Jan 12 11:25:37 EST 2017

Will this impact data retrieved from
http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/ ?

On Jan 12, 2017 9:53 AM, "Dan Swank - NOAA Affiliate" <dan.swank at noaa.gov>
wrote:

> This is to inform GrADS Users of https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/ ~
>
> Regretfully,
> This service is scheduled to be taken offline by the* end of February*
> 2017.
>
> The two primary reasons being the US Government HTTPS mandate
>    (Jan 2017) rendering the server largely useless.
>    This was essentially"Death from above".
>
> And 2, the changing server enviornments are demand the application
>    be run under a recent version of Tomcat 7+.  Preferably delivered by a
> .war file
>    that can be dropped into the container..
>
> If these two issues could be addressed, we may be
>    able to resurrect this service.
>
> This message has *no direct affiliation *with:
> http://nomads.*ncep*.noaa.gov/dods-alt
> The NCEP component will remain up,
> but is also in some degree of danger, I cannot address further.
>
> NCDC-NOMADS THREDDS services can be used in some cases
> to compensate opendap functionality for NCEP model datasets
> but generally will not work via. a local GrADS client via. sdfopen.
>
> https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog.html
>
>
>
>
>
> Some more detail:
>
> GDS generates links (hrefs) in the form of HTTP://hostname:443/URI
> instead of HTTPS://hostname/URI
>
> Even so... Trying sdfopen fails :
>
>
> Scanning self-describing file:  http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:
> 443/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff
> syntax error, unexpected SCAN_WORD, expecting SCAN_ATTR or SCAN_DATASET or
> SCAN_ERROR
> context: <!DOCTYPE^ HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML
> 2.0//EN"><html><head><title>400 Bad Request</title></head><body><h1>Bad
> Request</h1><p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not
> understand.<br />Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled
> server port.<br />Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL,
> please.<br /><blockquote>Hint: <a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/"><b>
> https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/</b></a></blockquote></p></body></html>
> Error: nc_open failed to open file http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:
> 443/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff
> NetCDF: Malformed or inaccessible DAP DDS
> gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>
> An alternate form, also "no dice":
>
> ga-> sdfopen https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/
> gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff
> Scanning self-describing file:  https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/
> dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff
> Error: nc_open failed to open file https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/
> dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff
> NetCDF: I/O failure
> gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>
>
> --
>
> Dan Swank
> NOMADS System Support, STG Inc. - Federal Government Contractor
> NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
> Data Stewardship Devision (DSD)
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> Asheville, NC 28801
> dan.swank at noaa.gov
> Phone: 828-271-4007
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>
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