Thanks Wayne! will try those options
On Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:22:45 UTC+11, wlandsman wrote:
> The quick but unsatisfying answer is that webget() doesn't seem to properly handle the "chunked" transfer encoding used by your Website. (This hasn't been an issue for most of the astronomy websites that webget() is used for.) Some options for you are
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> (1) I am pretty sure that Dominic Zarro's http code in the Solarsoft library does handle chunked transfer
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> (2) I believe the IDLNetURL object will handle chunked transfer encoding but again I haven't used it.
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> (3) Update webget() so that it can handle chunked encoding.
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> --Wayne
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> On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:10:28 PM UTC-5, JP wrote:
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>> G'day all,
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>> I am using the webget function from astrolib http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and i am finding some weird things.
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>> If I call webget to retrieve the information from an url like this:
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>> http://thredds0.nci.org.au/thredds/dodsC/u39/modis/lpdaac-mo saics-cmar/v1-hdf4/aust/MOD09A1.005/2004.12.10/MOD09A1.2004. 345.aust.005.b01.500m_0620_0670nm_refl.hdf.gz.ascii?500m_062 0_0670nm_refl[5109:1:5343][7451:1:7472]
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>> If you try that in a browser you'll see it returns meaningful data. (for thos interested that's a small subset of a MODIS reflectance product for Australia).
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>> I try that with webget doing:
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>> url = ' http://thredds0.nci.org.au/thredds/dodsC/u39/modis/lpdaac-mo saics-cmar/v1-hdf4/aust/MOD09A1.005/2004.12.10/MOD09A1.2004. 345.aust.005.b01.500m_0620_0670nm_refl.hdf.gz.ascii?500m_062 0_0670nm_refl[5109:1:5343][7451:1:7472]'
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>> However, when i explore the contents of a.text, in a few cases the result doesnt match what you get in your browser. For example:
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>> for i=68, 71 do print, a.text[i]
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>> [56], 1921, 1980, 1785, 1954, 2078, 2072, 1822, 1822, 1401, 1494, 1494, 1840
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>> , 2218, 2050, 2050, 1798, 1719, 1683, 1808, 1652, 1940, 1703
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>> [57], 1945, 1980, 1921, 1927, 1865, 1865, 1944, 1678, 1290, 1255, 1477, 1901, 1840, 1996, 1916, 1631, 1762, 1756, 1756, 1652, 1652, 1641
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>> [56], 1921, 1980, 1785, 1954, 2078, 2072, 1822, 1822, 1401, 1494, 1494, 1840, 2218, 2050, 2050, 1798, 1719, 1683, 1808, 1652, 1940, 1703
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>> [57], 1945, 1980, 1921, 1927, 1865, 1865, 1944, 1678, 1290, 1255, 1477, 1901, 1840, 1996, 1916, 1631, 1762, 1756, 1756, 1652, 1652, 1641
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>> the problem is repeated a few other times.
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>> Any ideas? I know webget uses SOCKET and other things like that, I didn't go that far in exploring where the problem could be in.
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>> Thanks
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