WCT link hardwired into all ncISO records is broken

[rsignell-usgs]

The ncISO code hardwires broken viewer links for some WCT beta service into the ISO records, like in this ISO record:

http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/iso/grib/FNMOC/WW3/Global_1p0deg/Best?catalog=http%3A%2F%2Fthredds.ucar.edu%2Fthredds%2Fcatalog%2Fgrib%2FFNMOC%2FWW3%2FGlobal_1p0deg%2Fcatalog.html&dataset=grib%2FFNMOC%2FWW3%2FGlobal_1p0deg%2FBest

which has a WCT viewer link of:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/wct-jnlp-beta.php?singlefile=http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/grib/FNMOC/WW3/Global_1p0deg/Best
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/wct-jnlp-beta.php

which gives a 404.

Is there an updated WCT endpoint that would work?

Would it not be good to provide the godiva endpoint in the ISO as a viewer endpoint, which does work, and which actually is provided by THREDDS?

http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/godiva2/godiva2.html?server=http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/wms/grib/FNMOC/WW3/Global_1p0deg/Best

[lesserwhirls]

Interesting, I don't think I've ever noticed the wct viewer link in there before. @noaaroland - do you know of an updated url for wct?

The thing about setting godiva as the viewer is that wms isn't enabled by default on 4.x servers, and most servers I've visited do not turn it on.

[rsignell-usgs]

@lesserwhirls, I should have been more clear: I'm not proposing to hardwire godiva in there.
I think hardwiring anything in the nciso code is a bad idea.
We should only add godiva as a viewer if WMS is enabled on the dataset (and perhaps after checking if the getcaps actually returns a reponse!)

Methinks nciso has the information it needs to do that already!

[lesserwhirls]

Ah, yes, that makes sense. I think that could be added pretty easily. However, I'm a bit reluctant to do that asap, as I would like to see the two versions of the iso code merged so that we have one codebase, if possible (that is, this). @noaaroland @kevin-obrien - where does the standalone app stand at this point? Is there still interest in getting things under one codebase?

[kevin-obrien]

Yes, @lesserwhirls absolutely under once codebase would be ideal. At the NetCDF meeting in Sept, you mentioned that you thought there were a few libraries and/or methods missing. We should follow up on this discussion soon and figure out how to identify what is missing...