Bug#690884: qgis fails to access HDF-EOS datasets directly

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:

 > I've tried to reproduce your problem with QGIS 2.0.1, but I'm not
 > able to download the HDF file.

 > ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MODIS_Composites/MOTA/MCD12Q1.005/2008.01.01/MCD12Q1.A2008001.h22v03.005.2011215183430.hdf

 > The FTP server claims to allow anonymous access with an email address
 > as password, but refuses login when done so.

 > Is there some HDF file publicly available with which I can reproduce
 > your problem?

	AIUI, they’ve moved the public archive from FTP to HTTP
	(at last!), and they’ve also got rid of version 5 data in favor
	of 5.1.  Which means the URI to download (more or less) the same
	dataset is now as follows:

http://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MODIS_Composites/MOTA/MCD12Q1.051/2008.01.01/MCD12Q1.A2008001.h22v03.051.2012158181950.hdf

	Thanks again for looking into this.

 > If you don't mind building QGIS yourself, you can try building QGIS
 > 2.0.1 from the pkg-grass git to see if it fixes your problem:

 > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-grass/qgis.git

	Alas, I doubt that I’ll be able to get into that until
	mid-October at the least.

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