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EIDA NG Mediator/Federator web services
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fed, stl: Request with non-capital letter returns bad request #34

Closed Jollyfant closed 6 years ago

Jollyfant commented 6 years ago

Try:

http://federator-testing.ethz.ch/fdsnws/station/1/query?net=Nl
damb commented 6 years ago

I know, but this was implemented intentionally. I'm not completely aware of the EIDA SNCL naming convention. However, with your suggestion this would mean

Nl == NL

Hence, in case a Nl network is defined this would inevitably lead to errors, right?

Jollyfant commented 6 years ago

I would think it returns a 204 if you query and end point. Nl is not equivalent to NL

kaestli commented 6 years ago

There is no further standardization statement on network codes beyond the fact that it is 1 or 2 letters, alphanumeric, and parts of the name space are reserved for temporary networks (with non-unique codes). There is no statement (neither on the FDSN website nor in SEED appendix J) disallowing for non-capital network codes, or stating that capital and non-capital letters are to be treeated as equal. Also for channel codes (a bit better defined SEED manual appendix A), there is no statement which either disallows for non-capital codes or sets ABC=abc. However, as all channel codes defined in appendix A, and all networks registered at http://www.fdsn.org/networks/ are in capital letters, users assuming ABC=abc have not terribly failed yet. Thus many users may expect the equality to be given.. It would, by the way, be a creative solution for the issues with name space limitation for networks in mseed, to take the seed standard by its word and start assigning network codes including non-capital letters...

damb commented 6 years ago

I'll implement a fix.