weird - I just tried meiosis and it loaded just fine.

Could you try it again and see if it works this time?

I wonder if its some weird problem to do with java?

jds

On 13-Jun-08, at 10:20 AM, Turadg Aleahmad wrote:

> 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
>
>
> >


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