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On Thu, 12 May 2005, James Gallagher wrote:

>
> On May 11, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Neil Killeen wrote:
>
> > James
> >
> > ok with some help we have hacked nph-dods
> > to make a pipe and do the business !
> >
>
> Great news!
>
> It seems that the biggest culprit in all of this was: 1) That
> authentication is based on httpd authenticating the user for the
> server and not the server authenticating the user for the data and; 2)
> That some of the filters (e.g., www_int) don't read the data but
> instead read from the server.
>

yes that's correct. we'd be happy with no server authentication but only data authentication (like one can do with apache directly).

yes some support programs use the webserver (curl requiring an alias as the data are not in the webserver tree) and some go straight to the data and some go via the opendap server.

also urls were getting mixed up. because we are coming in via a proxy, the URLs that are used by the support porgrams must be for the actual serrver whgereas the URLs embedded in the HTML need to be for the proxy (as its visible externally)

> If I fixed these two issues, then configuration would be much simpler
> for a site like yours (it would be hard to imagine making it harder!).
>
> James
>

I'll send you the files i changed and my write up of it for local administration later today when ive finished them

cheers Neil -- JamesGallagher - 17 May 2005