SODA, half-client

[Mark Taylor]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, James.Dempsey at csiro.au wrote:

> While no doubt outside the prototype UI, the downloaded file has a static name dlget. It would be useful if this had a fits extension and perhaps related back to the original image.

why?  My general position is that URLs should be treated as opaque,
and in particular relying on file extensions is a bad idea
(except on OSs where they are supposed to be significant, or maybe
as a hint in absence of other information).  In this case there
is a Content-Type: image/fits, which is where you should look.
But if there are good reasons to disagree with that, by all means
argue them.

Having said that: I tried using Markus's (nice) client with
SAOImage DS9 and SkyCat/GAIA as alternative image viewer SAMP clients.
Both failed, for reasons that I'm guessing are to do with the quite
ugly URL
(http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/califa/q2/dl/dlget?ID=ivo%3A%2F%2Forg.gavo.dc%2F~%3Fcalifa%2Fdatadr2%2FIC1528.V1200.rscube.fits&DEC=-7.097008036747518%20-7.089047402267772&RA=1.2644871315905835%201.2799343705069166&&&&&&&).
However, I've filed bug reports in both cases, since I'd see that
as a failure of the client not the service.

Mark

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