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Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) [message #40626 is a reply to message #40525]

Fri, 20 August 2004 09:16

R.G. Stockwell
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Registered: July 1999

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"Wayne Landsman" <wlandsman@jhu.edu> wrote in message news:m%bVc.25214$Kf4.14124@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Cool" <andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au>
>
>
>> "R.G. Stockwell" <noemail@please.com> wrote in message
> news:<kC6Tc.373$7A1.21311@news.uswest.net>...
>>>
>>> So, has anyone used IDL to open (as a client) some type of connection to
>>> a server, and list files, download selected files, etc? Any problems
> that
>>> you've run into, is this a viable solution to accessing data remotely?
>>> I could just put a directory listing on a web page, but I like the idea
> of
>>> a data analyzing widget that the user could run, to create figures, do
> simple
>>> processing, etc.
>
>> You can certainly use Sockets to ftp data from a remote site.
>> I've done this to read Topex data from
>>
> ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/sea_surface_height/topex_posei don/mgdrb/data/
>>
>
> Besides Andrew Cool's suggestion you can also look at Dominic Zarro's OO
> implementation of IDL sockets at
> http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/~zarro/idl/sockets.html
>
> And for simple http access from a Web server you could try my program
> webget.pro at http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/pro/sockets/webget.pro
>
> --Wayne Landsman

Great, thanks for the links Wayne!

Cheers,
bob

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		web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 13 August 2004 10:10
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		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: andrew.cool on Tue, 17 August 2004 22:05
		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 17 August 2004 10:34
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