Trixology
Weather => General Weather Discussion => Topic started by: xairbusdriver on December 07, 2016, 02:00:04 AM
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Just killing some time and checking for METAR data that I haven't correctly decoded and I was greeted to all six airports reporting NO DATA! Checked the files "downloaded" and they are all empty. No links to "https://www.aviationweather.gov" are getting responses, either. I'm sure it's just temporary, probably some contractor cut some cables! At least I had a routine set up to 'degrade' gracfully. Still I was surprised to see ATL, DFW, EWR, LAX, MEM and ORD all showing Nada! [rolleyes2]
This is at 7:50 CST, if anyone cares to check later, I'd appreciate it. Or if your site displays METAR data, you might want to disable it for a while?
Maybe I'll just post some of the many week old METAR (test) data and see if anyone notices the 'historical' nature of the info. Bad idea...
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It's all working for me.
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Yep. It cleared up here, also, sometime before 'lights out'. But I did see another slowdown/access interruption on three other sites this morning and even the $ell phone! Maybe nothing more than a need to clean out of he interweb 'pipes'. Too many people shopping online? [banghead] That reminds me, need to put my mailing address in my profile for people sending me gifts... cmu:-)
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Still not purfekt at aviationweather.gov. Actually, it may be what caused the temporary problem yesterday. While testing my edits today, I'm getting occasional errors.
The culprit is a change in the METAR file when it has been deleted but not replaced with an actual METAR data file. Instead of making a nearly blank METAR file (which I had found to be happening earlier), they are now creating a very basic 404 html (version 2! Talk about backwards compatibility! [lol]) page.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL
/data/observations/metar/stations/KORD.TXT
was not found on this server.</p>
</body>
</html>
I should be able to change my CRON script to catch the '404' error, but my skills are not up to that yet. Right now, I just check for the "<!DOCTYPE" text. That will work until they change the normal METAR data to be an actual html file! [lol] [computer] [blush] Maybe by then I will have mastered the cURL checking scheme. [rolleyes2]