I just tried a couple projects on the Pas Project demo page and neither came up, http://joan.oise.utoronto.ca/webapp/previewprojectlist.html
First I tried "Nature of Science" and ulimately got a "Can't Load Curnit" error. Looking in the JNLP I saw the offering was at, http://rails.dev.concord.org/sds/4/offering/35575/config/86456/1/view and the curnit inside was, http://www.encorewiki.org/download/attachments/2113/converted-wise.berkeley.edu-16683.jar which gives a 404 from the Encore wiki. Then I tried the top of the list, Meiosis and got the same error. This time with this offering, http://rails.dev.concord.org/sds/4/offering/35573/config/86455/1/view which has this curnit, http://www.telscenter.org/confluence/download/attachments/19315/converted-wise-dev.berkeley.edu-29913.jar which gives a Bad Gateway error, I think because TELS's Confluence and JIRA are down. The above is more a Pas specific issue than a SAIL issue, but I'm writing to SAIL-Dev because I think the SDS could use a link checking function. I see this happening in different ways. One would be a periodic sweep through its DB to see what URLs are 404 or not responding and generate a report. Someone responsible for a set of curnits could look and see what needs attention. This might be easier if there were an e-mail address associated with each offering (maybe there is already through its ownership) that was notified when a dead link was found. The links checked could be both the curnits and the JAR resources. The other idea I have is more complicated but I think also worthwhile. On request of the offering, the SDS can check the curnit URL (or look in its records to see its status if it it's already been requested recently) and if the curnit isn't available, then return a different offering that produces a Java app that notifies the user of the problem and gives them information to redress it. This message could be customized by the author/owner of the offering. Hitting bad links is a problem, and currently there is no way for the lay user to understand what happened and even worse, no way to get in touch with the people who can fix it. -Turadg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAIL-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SAIL-Dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
