[webservices] FDSN 1.1 services at the IRIS DMC

[Chad Trabant]

Hello WS users,

Tomorrow we will be updating all of our fdnsws web services (dataselect, event and station) to version 1.1 of the specification: http://www.fdsn.org/webservices/

The vast majority of users will not notice the difference as the changes are very few (the DMC’s services have mostly been 1.1 compliant for a long time).  The fdnsws-dataselect and fdsnws-event services will simply have their version number updated.  The fdsnws-station service will get a version number update and the service will support a new POST capability as documented in the specification and will be described on the service help pages.

The version number of the services themselves (as reported at, e.g., http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/version) is used by the IRIS-WS Java library, which is used by the DMC’s irisFetch.m MATLAB script, and perhaps other software.  All versions of the IRIS-WS library prior to 2.0.4 will cease function properly due to the version change.  To ensure uninterrupted data flow please confirm that you are using the latest (2.0.6) version of IRIS-WS, available here:

http://www.iris.edu/dms/nodes/dmc/software/downloads/IRIS-WS/

regards,
IRIS DMC