[Go-essp-tech] ESG Security Support in NetCDF

[Cinquini, Luca (3880)]

Hi Stephan, Phil,
	this is indeed great. Can you send an example on how you configured .dodsrc ?
Also, this won't work with the Java libraries yet, right ?
thanks, Luca

On Sep 2, 2010, at 8:13 AM, <stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk> <stephen.pascoe at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> I can confirm that this works with both cdat (tested with cdat_lite) and
> netCDF4-python.  All I had to do is to recompile the python packages
> linked to the latest netcdf-4-daily.tar.gz.  Then add some items to
> .dodsrc.  
> 
> Very exciting. 
> 
> S.
> 
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> Stephen Pascoe  +44 (0)1235 445980
> British Atmospheric Data Centre
> Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu
> [mailto:go-essp-tech-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of
> philip.kershaw at stfc.ac.uk
> Sent: 02 September 2010 15:15
> To: Lawrence, Bryan (STFC,RAL,SSTD); go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [Go-essp-tech] ESG Security Support in NetCDF
> 
> Dennis integrated the code so that security settings are passed via the
> .dodsrc file.  This means the C API is unchanged.  For any given binding
> - such as Python - it should just be a matter of linking with the
> updated libraries and adding the dodsrc options to your local
> environment.
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bryan Lawrence [mailto:bryan.lawrence at stfc.ac.uk]
>> Sent: 02 September 2010 14:23
>> To: go-essp-tech at ucar.edu
>> Cc: Kershaw, Philip (STFC,RAL,SSTD)
>> Subject: Re: [Go-essp-tech] ESG Security Support in NetCDF
>> 
>> Fabulous news!  Now to get the python interfaces to support it ... :-)
>> :-) :-)
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Bryan
>> 
>> On Thursday 02 September 2010 14:07:07 philip.kershaw at stfc.ac.uk
> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Some of you might be interested to know that some hooks have now 
>>> been added into the C NetCDF libraries to enable support for ESG 
>>> based security.  Calls to an ESG secured OPeNDAP server such as the 
>>> Data Node TDS, can be made by configuring  nc_open with a 
>>> certificate and private key enabling the server to authenticate / 
>>> authorize the client.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The changes are integrated in the NetCDF development trunk.   You
> can
>>> access the latest source from the snapshot:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/snapshot/netcdf-4-daily.tar.gz
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have example code if anyone is interested in finding out more.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Phil
>> 
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