Re: problem with generic ascii product

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

It just shows you ...  As far as I knew, nobody actually used the "generic
ASCII" output. The behavior that you describe is a known problem -- a
"feature".  But it didn't seem worth the effort that it would take to get it
right. As you say, it applies only to large outputs.

I'll look into fixing it.

Thanks for the feedback.

    - steve

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Dave Brown wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some users here have encountered a problem with the generic ascii product
> when attempting to fetch large subsets of some daily historical data.
> The header at the beginning of the data does not reflect the full extent
> of their request, or, it seems, the full extent of the data that is
> actually downloaded into the browser. From examing the GenericLAS_debug.txt
> it appears that if more than a certain maximum amount of data is
> requested (500000 words for this server), ferret enters a loop that
> processes the data in chunks. It appears to me that the data header as
> sent to the browser only reflects the data in the first chunk.
>
> As far as I can tell, it seems that ferret is generating the header.
> Is this a known problem, and if so, is there a workaround?
>  -dave brown

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