A Overview of the DODS Server Architecture

This appendix describes in functional terms the operation of a server.

Note that descriptions of server outputs naturally and unavoidably refer to certain kinds of inputs and vice versa. This makes it difficult to create definitions without forward and backward cross-references. Please be prepared to read this specification with a virtual thumb between the pages as you flip back and forth from the output to the input sections.

• A.1 Outputs
  • A.1.1 HTML Data
  • A.1.2 ASCII Data (Text)
  • A.1.3 Binary Data
• A.2 Inputs
  • A.2.1 Request types
  • A.2.2 Constraint expressions
  • A.2.3 Server functions