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Offline mldenison

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Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« on: October 17, 2017, 10:30:28 AM »
Is anyone using the wxspace.php page here?

The images for "Real Time Solar X-ray and Solar Wind" mostly don't display but report an 'Error: 019'.  A number of refreshes usually results in displaying most, if not all, of the images.

I'm guessing that has to do with the site that is hosting the images.

It's a neat page, but frustrating to use.
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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2017, 12:16:20 PM »
Is anyone using the wxspace.php page here?

The images for "Real Time Solar X-ray and Solar Wind" mostly don't display but report an 'Error: 019'.  A number of refreshes usually results in displaying most, if not all, of the images.

I'm guessing that has to do with the site that is hosting the images.

It's a neat page, but frustrating to use.
As far as i can see, all images are displayed at space page: https://www.m82a1.us/weather28/index.php?p=Space&lang=en
Only the alerts tab will not display as since a short time that page refuses to be displayed in an iframe.

To what page are you referring to?
The links for the images change every so many months,

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2017, 04:42:44 PM »
Hi Wim,

Sorry.  Your page always displays great.  I should have said that the Saratoga website is the one that's problematic:

http://www.m82a1.us/wxspace_narrow.php
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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2017, 04:49:55 PM »
The url's to to those images have changed from http:// to https://

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2017, 05:53:13 PM »
I'm not sure which links were changed.

The links, https://www.swpc.noaa.gov..., doesn't work but http://www.swpc.noaa.gov... does.
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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2017, 08:08:07 PM »
I stand corrected, the Space Weather Prediction Center has yet to transition to https.  How are you obtaining the thumbnail images that are generating this error?  If it is a script then I'd start there because the images are available on the SWPC site.

EDIT:  I reloaded your page a few times and a couple of the problem images did display while others didn't.  A quick look at your script provides a clue.  "Error 019: could not connect to remote image"

There might be a conectivity issue on your host's end.
« Last Edit: October 17, 2017, 08:12:44 PM by tmabell »

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2018, 12:41:39 PM »
I am running V 1.5 22-Jun-2017 of the wxspace.php script. http://www.planoweather.com/wxspace.php I am getting an Error: 007 for the Mauna Loa Solar Image. The image-space-solar-disk.gif file is being created with 0 filesize. I see other sites where it displays correctly. Any ideas?

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2018, 05:05:50 PM »
I updated quite a few links on mine not so long ago.

please check it out as see what you think?

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2018, 05:52:23 PM »
Thanks, Simon. I dropped your file on my site at http://www.planoweather.com/wxspace-test.php and it does the same thing. Your file does show version 1.6. Did any of the underlying php files change with that version? i.e. image-space-solar-disk.php.

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2018, 06:22:59 PM »
not that I know of ..

can you access the image directly from your web server.  by the look of it your php file will grab the latest image from this link:

http://download.hao.ucar.edu/d5/www/latestsmall.disk.gif

or

https://download.hao.ucar.edu/d5/www/latestsmall.disk.gif

see if you webserver can access that file?

perhaps the file permissions are wrong on your webserver for

image-space-solar-disk.jpg ??
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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2018, 06:24:26 PM »
Thanks, Simon. I dropped your file on my site at http://www.planoweather.com/wxspace-test.php and it does the same thing. Your file does show version 1.6. Did any of the underlying php files change with that version? i.e. image-space-solar-disk.php.

/*
# sometimes an error code can be printed in the image
# possible errors that could show up in the image are:
Error 000: Forbidden characters in $localimgName only letters, numbers, dash, underscore, and dots allowed
Error 001: Forbidden characters in $outputimgName only letters, numbers, dash, underscore, and dots allowed
Error 002: $localimgName file type not gif, jpg, or png. This script only supports .jpg .gif and .png
Error 003: Download error: cannot write to file, check server permission settings
Error 004: Download error: reading or opening file, check availability of $ImageURL
Error 005: Error loading image
Error 006: Missing downloaded temp file
Error 007: Convert_download: file not gif, jpg, or png. This script only supports .jpg .gif and .png
Error 008: Missing cache file
Error 009: Missing downloaded file
Error 010: Copy cache image failed
Error 011: Convert_download: touch image last modified time failed
Error 012: Chmod 0644 image failed
Error 015: Wrong settings: $localimgName and $outputimgName must have same extension IE: .jpg .gif or .png
Error 016: $outputimgName file type not gif, jpg, or png. This script only supports .jpg .gif and .png
Error 017: $localimgName and $outputimgName cannot be named the same
Error 018: fetching timestamp failed for URL (remote_image) 404 not found?
Error 019: could not connect to remote image
Error 020: $ImageURL must start with http
*/
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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2018, 10:05:19 AM »
I dropped your image-space-solar-disk.php file in and get the same result. Thanks for pointing out the error explanations section. I have no idea at this point.

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2018, 10:38:39 AM »
I can only assume that the time to download the image is taking too long or your server is not converting it to a jpg from gif.

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The image-space-solar-disk.gif file is being created with 0 filesize

so this would indicate your server is not able to download and create the file.  have you tried removing that zero byte image and trying again?

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2018, 04:28:53 PM »
You are correct. I can connect to https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/mlso/mlso-home-page from my webhost, but not https://download.hao.ucar.edu/d5/www/latestsmall.disk.gif

Code: [Select]
/usr/bin/curl https://download.hao.ucar.edu/d5/www/latestsmall.disk.gif
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

I wonder if they are blocking me or if it is my webhost? I have never had this issue with Hostgator.

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2018, 04:30:08 PM »
Try http instead of https

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2018, 04:35:16 PM »
Same result.
Code: [Select]
/usr/bin/curl http://download.hao.ucar.edu/d5/www/latestsmall.disk.gif
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

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Re: Space Weather (wxspace.php)
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2018, 04:38:01 PM »
It's worth contacting your hosting company see if they can give any help into why your site cannot access that link.

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