You can modify externes.ini to change the URLs CdC uses. No re-install
needed.
Sander
plalbrecht wrote:
>
> Hi, Patrick and all.
>
> I've started a series of strange events in my CdC installation.
>
> First, I wanted to plot some asteroids. So I started CdC (V2.76),
> clicked on the "catalog and objects paramenters" icon in the left
> margin, asteroids, and asteroid elements. I tried both CBAT and Astorb,
>
> It seems to run but eventually it reports back
> "Read Bytes: 91394 / Error: 404 Not Found"
>
> The URL it's trying to use is
> http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2007/Soft00Bright.txt
> <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2007/Soft00Bright.txt>
> + Soft00Unusual.txt
> and indeed when I go there manually, it's "not found." (also if I bo
> to ...bright.txt and ...unusual.txt separately)
>
> So I saw the thing on the download page, "Comets and Asteroid
> Download," May 25 2006, "CfA web site change is base url from cfa-www
> to www.cfa. As the program do not follow the url redirection the
> download failed.
> Replace this file in the Ciel directory to use the new url."
>
> Tried that. No difference. Still get the 404 error.
>
> CdC appears to want to use the url
> http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2007/Soft06Bright.txt
> <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2007/Soft06Bright.txt>
> which is not found, and
> + Soft06Unusual.txt
> also not found
>
> It appears the URLs have have changed again?
> http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/Soft06Unusual.txt
> <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/Soft06Unusual.txt>
> when tried manually, does work. At least, I get a list of objects.
> Also the "bright" list seems to be at
> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2006/Soft00Bright.txt
> <http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2006/Soft00Bright.txt>
> Format of URLs seem to be inconsistent?
>
> Then I replaced the two lines in the extres.ini file with
> url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2006/Soft00Bright.txt
> <http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2006/Soft00Bright.txt>
> url2=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/Soft06Unusual.txt
> <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/Soft06Unusual.txt>
>
> That seems to work; at least I don't get the 404 errors anymore.
>
> But I don't get any lists of asteroids appearing in the CdC window,
> and I get an error box
> " is not a valid integer value
>
> Furthermore when I hit the "refresh" button in the catalogs box, or
> when I close the "Internet resource" box, I get that same warning box
> " is not a valid integer value.
>
> I also get this box now when starting CdC. Right on top of the small
> CdC splash box. Never had that before. Then once I x that out, the
> program continues to load normally.
>
> Other than asteroids and that error box it appears to be running
> correctly.
>
> I would hate to burn down all my settings, catalogs, observatory
> locations etc. by doing a more extensive re-install, anybody have any
> ideas?
>
> Pete
>
>
