Current commands available with OPeNDAP:

• <showCatalog node="node_name" />
  • Shows catalog information, including contents if a container. If node is not specified then the root node information is returned. If node is specified then that nodes information is returned.
• <showInfo node="node_name" />
  • Shows catalog information for just that node, the root node if no node is specified. If the node is a container the contents are not displayed.



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• <get type="das|dds|dods|ddx" definition="def_name" returnAs="returnAs" />
  • dds: request the data descriptor structure
  • das: request the data attributes
  • ddx: request the data attributes and data descriptor structure returned as an xml document
  • dods: request for the data stream, this output is an octec binary stream which requires the analysis by the client dods library



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• <setContext name="errors">dap2|xml|html|txt</setContext>
  • set the context 'errors' to dap2 in order to have all exceptions and errors formatted as dap2 error messages in the response.



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• For more information please contact Patrick West, pwest@ucar.edu