Seems some recent change to the 4G hosting for SouthwesternWX.net (SWN) has caused a large problem for members of the network, and lack of current conditions for SWN members on the Affiliated Regional Networks Google map.
Every HTTP GET or HEAD type request is responded with a 302-Found and a Location: header that specifies the same path/file location.
Using FireBug on Firefox, I see that there is a series of 3 requests needed in order to actually get the file in question
GET SWN-conditions.txt
302 Found southwesternwx.net 0 184.168.174.1:80 156ms
Response
Connection close
Pragma no-cache
Cache-Control no-cache
Location /OhQKV/SWN-conditions.txt
Request
Host southwesternwx.net
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection keep-alive
--------------------- try 2 ---------------------
GET SWN-conditions.txt
302 Found southwesternwx.net 0 184.168.174.1:80 157ms
Response
Connection close
Pragma no-cache
Cache-Control no-cache
Location /SWN-conditions.txt
Request
Host southwesternwx.net
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection keep-alive
--------------------- try 3 ---------------------
GET SWN-conditions.txt
200 OK southwesternwx.net 4.8 KB 184.168.174.1:80 156ms
Response
Date Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:53:06 GMT
Server Apache
Last-Modified Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:50:28 GMT
Etag "1ebb1ce-1361-4affe4b6142fa"
Accept-Ranges bytes
Content-Length 4961
Keep-Alive timeout=15, max=100
Connection Keep-Alive
Content-Type text/plain
Request
Host southwesternwx.net
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection keep-alive
3 requests 4.8 KB
While using something simple like the Perl command lines, just results in the first 302, and no data
C:\WINDOWS>GET
http://southwesternwx.net/SWN-conditions.txt<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>An Error Occurred</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>An Error Occurred</H1>
302 Found
</BODY>
</HTML>
C:\WINDOWS>HEAD
http://southwesternwx.net/SWN-conditions.txt302 Found
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Pragma: no-cache
Location: /SWN-conditions.txt
Client-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:48:12 GMT
Client-Peer: 184.168.174.1:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-Warning: Redirect loop detected
C:\WINDOWS>
The result is:
1) all users of the SWN mesomap are unable to use the master cache file on southwesternwx.net and the mesomap will try to fetch the data directly from member stations (resulting in a sloooowwww page load).
2) the Global Google Map is unable to get SWN member stations data, so all show as offline.
I've opened a ticket with GoDaddy (via support email as the first-level was really unable to comprehend what the problem was).
First level did say they had recently upgraded Apache (and I think it's an httpd.conf issue they need to fix).
If I don't get a good response shortly, I'll be porting the southwesternwx.net to a different hoster. Grrrr...
Ken
