[thredds] catalogRef question.

[Nathan Potter]

Ethan et al.,


This is a question about THREDDS 3.16 and DataRootHandler.

I am looking at configuring a THREDDS catalog to reference a catalog  
on another system. I imagined that I could put this:


<catalogRef xlink:href="http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.xml 
" xlink:type="simple" xlink:title="Motherlode, UNIDATA"  
name="Motherlode_UNIDATA"/>

into my catalog.xml.


When I do that and ask the server for the catalog.xml I get this entry:

<catalogRef xlink:href="http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.xml 
" xlink:title="Motherlode, UNIDATA" name="" />

Although it lost the xlink:type attribute (which is expected) and also  
the value of the name attribute (not expected), it should still work  
since the the xlink:href attribute is correct, and dereferencing that  
absolute URL it will get you that catalog.

However when I ask for the catalog.html I get this bit:

<a href="/opendap/catalogServices?catalog=http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.xml 
"><tt>Motherlode, UNIDATA/</tt></a></td>


Now, in my mind the value href attribute should have been:

     http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.html

I think this because this (the catalog.html document) is the  
presentation view of the catalog and it should point to the  
presentation view of the referenced catalog. Rather, it points to a  
local servlet... Which I am not running :( because I didn't know about  
it or what it might do.

Can you explain what's going on?



Nathan



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