Public bug reported:
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Issue Description
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In relation to "weather-applet" and "libgweather" - over the past
several months, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has updated
its website to deliver a HTML forecast page for a number of locations
around Australia.
Currently - the <zone> tag from "Locations.xml" is used within the
"weather-bom.c" to retrieve information from the appropriate bom.gov.au
URL which if successful is then parsed in the "bom_parse" function.
With the new HTML forecast pages for various locations however, the data
can not be successfully parsed and instead the message "Forecast not
currently available for this location." shows up on the Forecast tab of
weather-applet.
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Area of Interest
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Within "weather-bom.c" - the following line of code points to URLs
(depending on location) that now have HTML forecast data rather than
plain text...
url = g_strdup_printf ("http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?%s.txt";,
loc->zone + 1);
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Suggested Fix
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I suggest/propose that the URL above be changed to point to plain text
documents on the BOM FTP server (ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/)
with the appropriate weather station zone.
e.g. for Sydney (Zone IDN10064) - currently the code would point to:
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDN10064.txt
However this is now a HTML forecast, which causes the issue noted
above... by pointing the code to:
ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDN10064.txt
The plain text forecast can be used without any modification to the
other functions/aspects of the code.
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Patches - Untested!
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Please see the attached "weather-bom.c" which includes the suggested fix
(i.e. patched version). Note it will need to be/should be tested by
someone who knows how to recompile the libgweather source.
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System information
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Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
libgweather-common:
Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/linux/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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** Affects: libgweather (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: australia bom.gov.au libgweather weather
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Locations using bom.gov.au for forecast data no longer can no longer retrieve
forecast data
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629646
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