On Saturday 06 November 2010 03:51:28 James Turner wrote: > On 6 Nov 2010, at 08:46, Maik Justus wrote: > > to avoid this happen again in the future: > > > > Is it possible to add a metar-server functionality to the mpservers? If > > the NOAA protocol / access changes we only have to modify the mpservers, > > not the clients? > > Just to be clear, NOAA aren't being 'inconsiderate' - the FG code has been > broken, and non-compliant, all along - it just happened to be a > non-compliance the old servers tolerated. > > We weren't, prior to Thorsten's fix, sending a valid request - any cache, > proxy or server would have been entirely permitted to ignore it. There's no > need to postulate complex additions to our side - we should just check our > HTTP compliance better! > > James
I looked at the NOAA site last night. http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ There are some seriously old metar files mixed in there! http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/ENLU.TXT for example, is from 02 JUN 2007! It would be nice if someone could figure out a way to guard against that! Thanks, Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
