Our LAS server is behind a firewall which requires all outgoing HTTP requests to be channelled through an authenticating proxy server. This means that if I want to make available an external DODS dataset on our LAS site, I somehow need the DODS HTTP request to provide a username and password to the proxy server. I note that the most recent version of DODS (3.2) has made a non-standard extension to the URL syntax for HTTP (RFC 1738) to enable this (together with a ~/.dodsrc file which specifies the proxy server): http://<proxy-username>:<proxy-password>@<dods-host>/<dods-dataset-path> Leaving aside the standards issue, in principle I should then be able to do this by putting a DODS URL in this form in the LAS XML. I have an older version of LAS in which this doesn't work, but I'm wondering whether the latest version supports DODS URLs of this form? Cheers, - Andrew -- ----------------------------------------------------- Andrew Woolf (awo@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk) Environmental Systems Science Centre (ESSC) Reading University 3 Earley Gate Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AL UNITED KINGDOM Phone: +44 (0)118 931 8741 Fax: +44 (0)118 931 6413 -----------------------------------------------------