Re: [ferret_users] the length limit of dods links?

[David Wang <climater@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ansley,

Thanks for the response. So the limit will be relaxed in the next FERRET release, but not very soon, will it?

D.

On 4/27/07, Ansley Manke <Ansley.B.Manke@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi David,
Thank you for the report. The limit is still at 256. We're reviewing why this is; possibly we had set it that way to be compatible with older OPeNDAP libraries.  I don't think there's any reason we won't be able to increase it but for now I don't see a workaround.

Ansley

David Wang wrote:

Dear Ferreters,

According to a message quite a while ago,

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/Mail_Archives/fu_2001/msg00655.html

the maximal length of a filename is 512 chars. However when I tried to open a long dods link in FERRET, it gave an error and seems to cut off the filename string to 234 chars. I wonder if there is a length limit for dods links.

Thanks,
David

PS: an example:

yes? set data " http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NODC/.WOA01/.Masks/.basin/Z/%281.%29VALUES/Z/removeGRID/2/masklt/2/maskgt/0.5/0/RESCALE/SOURCES/.CARTON-GIESE/.SODA/.v1p4p2/.temp/lon/%28X%29renameGRID/lat/%28Y%29renameGRID%5BX/Y%5D1/regridAverage/mul%5BX%5Daverage/dods "
 **netCDF error
             OPeND(OPeNDAP/netCDF Error code 1001)
             Data set: http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NODC/.WOA01/.Masks/.basin/Z/%281.%29VALUES/Z/removeGRID/2/masklt/2/maskgt/0.5/0/RESCALE/SOURCES/.CARTON-GIESE/.SODA/.v1p4p2/.temp/lon/%28X%29renameGRID/lat/%28Y%29renameGRID%5BX/Y%5D1/reg
yes?

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