User Information Keywords

The VSO provides a number of keywords to describe information required by Data Providers to complete a request for Data Products.

For the most recent list of User Information Keywords, please see

​http://vso.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/show_details.pl?keyword=INFO

As of the time of this writing, the keywords in use are as follows:

EMAIL

The e-mail address of the person requesting the data to be transfered. This is typically used to notify the requestor of completion or problems, or to coordinate cost recovery and other such details. Some Data Providers may use this or other information to identify unique users to their site to justify their budget. Please see our notes regarding Privacy Policies.

HOST

Either the fully qualified domain name, or a routable IP address of the system to transfer the Data Products to. Used by PUSH.

USER

The user name that should be used to login to the system. If you wish to use anonymous FTP, please specify 'anonymous' or 'ftp' as appropriate to your system, and a suitable corresponding password.

PASSWORD

The password that should be used to login to the system. Used by PUSH.

DIRECTORY

The system directory that files should be saved to. Some Data Providers may create sub-directories below this point. If the directory is root relative, it should be preceeded with a slash /. Used by PUSH.

ADDRESS

The postal mailing address to send physical media to you. Used by OFFLINE.