Package: metar
Version: 20061030.1-2.2+b1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
On February 4th the "metar" tool stopped working.
At this point NOAA switched responding on their HTTP URL with metar data
to returning a redirect to the HTTPS variante of the URL.
This can be seen when stracing the command:
sendto(3, "GET /data/observations/metar/stations/EDDH.TXT HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:
tgftp.nws.noaa.gov\r\nAccept: */*\r\n\r\n", 98, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 98
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLRDNORM|POLLRDBAND}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 103) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}])
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLRDNORM|POLLRDBAND}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=3,
revents=POLLIN|POLLRDNORM}])
recvfrom(3, "HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved\r\nLocation:
https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/EDDH.TXT\r\nContent-Type:
text/html\r\nCache-Control: private\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n
This object may be found https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/EDDH.TXT\;>here
", 16384, 0, NULL, NULL) = 310
The resulting output is currently - independent of the given ICAO code:
$ metar KJFK
METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
Since metar is already using the HTTPS capable curl library, a fix is
easy:
--- src/metar.h.orig2019-02-09 11:42:21.266330785 +0100
+++ src/metar.h 2019-02-09 11:39:30.051454153 +0100
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
#define METAR_MAXSIZE 512
/* where to fetch reports */
-#define METARURL "http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations;
+#define METARURL "https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations;
/* clouds */
typedef struct {
Or - for the debian package - by patching the patch:
--- debian/patches/fix-metarurl.orig2019-02-09 11:44:46.832712464 +0100
+++ debian/patches/fix-metarurl 2019-02-09 11:44:59.796579902 +0100
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
/* where to fetch reports */
-#define METARURL
"http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations;
-+#define METARURL "http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations;
++#define METARURL
"https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations;
/* clouds */
typedef struct {
In debian/control the library dependencies have to be upgraded (at least
for Debian testing):
--- debian/control.orig 2019-02-09 11:47:43.335228481 +0100
+++ debian/control 2019-02-09 11:47:55.223124936 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Kees Leune
Standards-Version: 3.9.8
-Build-Depends: libcurl3-gnutls-dev, dh-autoreconf, debhelper (>= 9)
+Build-Depends: libcurl4-openssl-dev, dh-autoreconf, debhelper (>= 9)
Package: metar
Architecture: any
Regards,
Sven
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages metar depends on:
ii libc62.28-5
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.63.0-1
metar recommends no packages.
metar suggests no packages.
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