<div dir="auto">Will this impact data retrieved from <a href="http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/">http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/</a> ?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2017 9:53 AM, "Dan Swank - NOAA Affiliate" <<a href="mailto:dan.swank@noaa.gov">dan.swank@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>This is to inform GrADS Users of <a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>dods/</a> ~<br><br></div>Regretfully,<br>This service is scheduled to be taken offline by the<b> end of February</b> 2017.<br><br></div>The two primary reasons being the US Government HTTPS mandate<br></div> (Jan 2017) rendering the server largely useless.<br></div><div> This was essentially"Death from above".<br><br></div>And 2, the changing server enviornments are demand the application<br></div> be run under a recent version of Tomcat 7+. Preferably delivered by a .war file<br></div><div> that can be dropped into the container..<br></div><br>If these two issues could be addressed, we may be<br></div> able to resurrect this service.<br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br>This message has <i>no direct affiliation </i>with:<br><a href="http://nomads" target="_blank">http://nomads</a>.<b>ncep</b>.<a href="http://noaa.gov/dods-alt" target="_blank">noaa.gov/<wbr>dods-alt</a><br>The NCEP component will remain up, <br>but is also in some degree of danger, I cannot address further.<br><br>NCDC-NOMADS THREDDS services can be used in some cases<br>to compensate opendap functionality for NCEP model datasets<br>but generally will not work via. a local GrADS client via. sdfopen.<br><br><a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog.html" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>thredds/catalog.html</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>Some more detail:<br><br>GDS generates links (hrefs) in the form of <a href="HTTP://hostname:443/URI" target="_blank">HTTP://hostname:443/URI</a> instead of <a href="HTTPS://hostname/URI" target="_blank">HTTPS://hostname/URI</a><br><br>Even so... Trying sdfopen fails :<br><br><br>Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:443/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff" target="_blank">http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:<wbr>443/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/<wbr>20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_<wbr>fff</a><br>syntax error, unexpected SCAN_WORD, expecting SCAN_ATTR or SCAN_DATASET or SCAN_ERROR<br>context: <!DOCTYPE^ HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><html><head><title><wbr>400 Bad Request</title></head><body><<wbr>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="<a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.<wbr>noaa.gov/</a>"><b><a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/" target="_blank">https://nomads.<wbr>ncdc.noaa.gov/</a></b></a></<wbr>blockquote></p></body></html><br>Error: nc_open failed to open file <a href="http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:443/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff" target="_blank">http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:<wbr>443/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/<wbr>20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_<wbr>fff</a><br>NetCDF: Malformed or inaccessible DAP DDS<br>gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.<br><br>An alternate form, also "no dice":<br><br>ga-> sdfopen <a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/<wbr>gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff</a><br>Scanning self-describing file: <a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/<wbr>gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff</a><br>Error: nc_open failed to open file <a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>dods/NCEP_GFS/201612/20161204/<wbr>gfs_3_20161204_0000_fff</a><br>NetCDF: I/O failure<br>gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.<br><br><br>-- <br><div class="m_-7067071684315867136gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>Dan Swank<br>NOMADS System Support, STG Inc. - Federal Government Contractor<br>NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)<br>Data Stewardship Devision (DSD)<br>151 Patton Ave<br>Asheville, NC 28801<br><a href="mailto:dan.swank@noaa.gov" target="_blank">dan.swank@noaa.gov</a><br>Phone: 828-271-4007<br>Customer Support: 828-271-4800 or <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/contact" target="_blank">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>contact</a><br><br>The newly formed NCEI merges the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).<br><br>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NOAANationalClimaticDataCenter" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<wbr>NOAANationalClimaticDataCenter</a> Twitter: @NOAANCDC @NOAAOceanData<br><br>======================= Disclaimer ===========<br>I am not a Federal Employee. <br>Any opinions expressed in this message are mine personally and<br>do not represent official positions from STG Inc, ERT, NCEI, or NOAA<br>==============================<wbr>==============</div></div>
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