Dear Steve and WeatherCat contributors to PWSweather.com
It must have just come back, then. I was getting a can't load error.
Actually that is what I would have expected. However my
WC Web Data Uploader ran the whole time without any errors.
I checked with Steve about his initial contacts with PWSweather.com and got the email of Joe Torsitano of WeatherForYou.com. When I asked him about error codes I should have been looking for he replied:
During the recent outage the server was completely down. So the response
would have been whatever the user's ISP or system says when a server isn't
available. So I'm not sure how you would detect that in the script.
Trouble is, when I run a test by modifying the the hostname to something that obviously doesn't exist - I get the sort of error I would have expected from the script. However, when I look at the log files from the outage period, there are log entries insisting data was successfully uploaded to PWSweather.com.
So I don't understand this one. The only think I can imagine is some funky caching of old pages on the part of Lynx when a page is inaccessible? However, that doesn't sound right to me. A web browser is supposed to fail when the URL is inaccessible, so I don't get this. I'll continue to poke around and report if I find something.
Cheers, Edouard
P.S. Just to make sure, was anyone else uploading data to PWSweather April 3-5 using
LWC Web Data Uploader? Did anyone else notice any errors?