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FDSN Web Service Specification Commonalities
https://www.fdsn.org/webservices/
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relax path requirement to not require fdsnws #2

Open crotwell opened 5 years ago

crotwell commented 5 years ago

Current (1.2) spec says:

`The following base URI pattern is to be used at each data center implementing FDSN services:

​/fdsnws///` But that limits datacenters to a single instance of each type of web service, and this requirement is already an issue, for example IRIS with the PH5 repository at: [http://service.iris.edu/ph5ws/dataselect/1](http://service.iris.edu/ph5ws/dataselect/1) So, maybe should relax this requirement by saying a compliant service url should be `​////` where `` can be defined by the datacenter if needed, but the primary url for a fdsn web service with a datacenter should have repository be 'fdsnws'.
javiquinte commented 5 years ago

Very good suggestion.

chad-earthscope commented 5 years ago

I support a slight relaxation of this pattern as well. I've heard multiple folks express the opinion that that the consistent path pattern was very valuable, a requirement to use 'fdsnws' for the primary repository strikes a good balance.