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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/0089a003-7709-4d4a-82c5-8cb54cc2dc1a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
