Interesting, using curl sometimes I can it fine, but wunderfixer is always getting a 403 Forbidden, as if it is actively being blocked... When it doesn't work in curl I get `HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found` and when it does work I get `HTTP/1.1 200 OK`. Curl never gets a 403 error.
On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 11:48:08 AM UTC-6, Jarom Hatch wrote: > > I was able to get it to work twice in my web browser, but as you said, it > is sporadic. I don't ever recall them using Akamai before so that may very > well be a contributing factor. > > I wonder if we can find out the origin address and see what happens if we > can bypass Akamai... > > On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 7:35:18 AM UTC-6, Leon Shaner wrote: >> >> For one thing, the URL of this form: >> >> >> http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=SOMESTATION&month=5&day=22&year=2019&format=1 >> >> Is now redirecting to one using HTTPS: >> >> >> https://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=SOMESTATION&month=5&day=22&year=2019&format=1 >> >> Also, the redirect itself takes an excruciatingly long time. >> So I just changed the URL to https directly... >> >> The first time I tried any of the above using CURL this morning it >> worked, but then after that I started getting: >> >> An error occurred while processing your request. >> >> Reference #30.6f451160.1558531514.16ced4f6 >> It looks as if they've put some kind of Akamai proxy in the middle, which >> is fine for static content, but not so fine for a query of this nature. >> Strange that it worked for me the very first time. It's almost as if the >> Akamai "farm" has lost some "state" information and not all nodes have the >> same content, so if you get stuck going through a bad node you get a bogus >> response. >> >> Attached is a transcript of a failed attempt. I put SOMESTATION there >> only after the fact. The actual query was for my actual station, which >> used to work. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/07ac6f86-ae4d-4854-8398-ce4ab8d846c1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
