Author Topic: NWS Forecast Feed Broke (Read 14932 times)

Breezy · « **on:** March 31, 2015, 12:43:35 PM »

At approximately 16:30 GMT the NWS forecast feed broke.

jgillett · « **Reply #1 on:** March 31, 2015, 12:46:32 PM »

Yep, mine is down as well.

Maumelle Weather · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2015, 12:57:21 PM »

Same here. Mine is down, too.

Checked Ken's site, his is down, also.

gwwilk · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2015, 01:07:14 PM »

In the same boat here

Edit 12:20 pm CDT 2015 March 31:
My text point forecast is 'http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.7843&lon=-96.6419&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=text&TextType=1' while Lincoln, NE text forecast is 'http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.8169&lon=-96.7109&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=text&TextType=1'

I can't find the old point forecasts. Ken is probably going to have to bail us out again...

The old forecast URL for Lincoln is 'http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Lincoln&state=NE&site=OAX&textField1=40.8164&textField2=-96.6882&e=0&TextType=2'.

All of these yield some kind of forecast, but the NWS's changes broke advforecast2.php somehow.

Just checked Ken's site, and he's got the same problem. Pretty sure he will be working on it soon if he isn't already doing so.

McLouthWX · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2015, 01:33:59 PM »

Mine appears to be working just fine.... odd
http://mclwx.info/weather2/index.php?p=50-2&lang=en
But, I'm not using Ken's templates.

Ken

Breezy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2015, 01:53:45 PM »

Quote

All of these yield some kind of forecast, but the NWS's changes broke advforecast2.php somehow.

Yup, Ken's advforecast2.php script doesn't like the NWS's changes. The NWS forecast is still coming through to my Site #2 - Leuven web page http://indiantrailweather.com/weather2/

April Fool's isn't for a few more hours ...

Jeff

jahuff · « **Reply #6 on:** March 31, 2015, 01:55:18 PM »

Hi Everyone,

Broken in New Hampshire as well.

I think we need Ken with this one.

John

gwwilk · « **Reply #7 on:** March 31, 2015, 01:57:44 PM »

Good news! Ken's site is now showing the NWS forecast, but with a 'forecast-new.php'!

In addition to the Leuven template still functioning, Curly's 'Quick Forecast' also still works.

saratogaWX · « **Reply #8 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:07:03 PM »

Looks like the point printable forecast is returning a page

Quote

HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 290
Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:38:56 GMT
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:38:56 GMT
Connection: close

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Access Denied</H1>

You don't have permission to access "http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?" on this server.<P>
Reference #18.963819b8.1427823536.276aa2a
</BODY>
</HTML>

They seem to have disallowed HTTP1.0 access (so Akamai sends the 'Forbidden' response).

I've updated the advforecast2.php script to V3.14 31-Mar-2015 to use HTTP1.1 access, and it works again.

Standalone users: download from the script page.
V3 template users: use the update tool page for Base-USA, Plugin-*, 31-Mar-2015 query.

Best regards,
Ken

Breezy · « **Reply #9 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:14:08 PM »

Ken, you are fantastic as usual.

Such a fast response with a positive result. You should be an "EMT" in your spare time !!!

Thanks much. Will download the new file.

Jeff

jahuff · « **Reply #10 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:15:10 PM »

Hi Ken,

All fixed thanks so much.

John

CNYWeather · « **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:17:44 PM »

Thank you Ken. Dont know what we'd do without you.

Breezy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:28:16 PM »

Ken, the fix is in. Thanks.

Jeff

sam2004gp · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:39:05 PM »

I put the following in my standalone version of the Page and I still get the forecast for Ken's site.

//
$NOAAZone = 'VAZ026'; // change this line to your NOAA warning zone.
// set $fileName to the URL for the point-printable forecast for your area
$fileName = "http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.3571&lon=-78.9409&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=text&TextType=2";

Any ideas???

Here is my page i am trying to fix.

---------------

Ooops never mind I had to reset my browser cache. Oooops.

gwwilk · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:40:24 PM »

Quote from: sam2004gp on March 31, 2015, 02:39:05 PM

I put the following in my standalone version of the Page and I still get the forecast for Ken's site.

//
$NOAAZone = 'VAZ026'; // change this line to your NOAA warning zone.
// set $fileName to the URL for the point-printable forecast for your area
$fileName = "http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.3571&lon=-78.9409&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=text&TextType=2";

Any ideas???

You need to copy that line from a backup copy of the old advforecast2.php to the new one. Just uploading the script from Ken's site gives you his forecast.

sam2004gp · « **Reply #15 on:** March 31, 2015, 02:42:19 PM »

Quote from: gwwilk on March 31, 2015, 02:40:24 PM

Quote from: sam2004gp on March 31, 2015, 02:39:05 PM
I put the following in my standalone version of the Page and I still get the forecast for Ken's site.

//
$NOAAZone = 'VAZ026'; // change this line to your NOAA warning zone.
// set $fileName to the URL for the point-printable forecast for your area
$fileName = "http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.3571&lon=-78.9409&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=text&TextType=2";

Any ideas???
You need to copy that line from a backup copy of the old advforecast2.php to the new one. Just uploading the script from Ken's site gives you his forecast.

Thanks, it was my browser pulling the page from the cache before I loaded the settings up to my site. It's working now.

ValentineWeather · « **Reply #16 on:** March 31, 2015, 03:10:11 PM »

Thanks Ken

Today many of the local forecast websites changed over to the new look. They had been advertising the change for some time. May of been what happened. North Platte: http://www.weather.gov/lbf/

UpstateWeather.com · « **Reply #17 on:** March 31, 2015, 03:17:26 PM »

Quote from: saratogaWX on March 31, 2015, 02:07:03 PM

Looks like the point printable forecast is returning a page
Quote
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 290
Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:38:56 GMT
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:38:56 GMT
Connection: close

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Access Denied</H1>

You don't have permission to access "http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?" on this server.<P>
Reference #18.963819b8.1427823536.276aa2a
</BODY>
</HTML>

They seem to have disallowed HTTP1.0 access (so Akamai sends the 'Forbidden' response).

I've updated the advforecast2.php script to V3.14 31-Mar-2015 to use HTTP1.1 access, and it works again.

Standalone users: download from the script page.
V3 template users: use the update tool page for Base-USA, Plugin-*, 31-Mar-2015 query.

Best regards,
Ken

Ken - as always, you are amazing. Thanks for the help!

I'm having a similar issue with the Forecast Discussion. Any chance you are working your magic on that script as well?

dasman · « **Reply #18 on:** March 31, 2015, 03:22:31 PM »

As always, thank you KEN!

jgillett · « **Reply #19 on:** March 31, 2015, 03:48:11 PM »

Now all better here. Thank you, Ken.

chief-david · « **Reply #20 on:** March 31, 2015, 03:56:58 PM »

Looks like mine will be off until at least next week. I cannot make any updates to anything on my server thanks to a computer glitch at school. I cannot see anything on my server at school. Which is amazing considering all files can still be uploaded. So I cannot make my fixes but thank you ken. At least I know there is not a problem on the script.

saratogaWX · « **Reply #21 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:12:46 PM »

Quote from: eric799 on March 31, 2015, 03:17:26 PM

Quote from: saratogaWX on March 31, 2015, 02:07:03 PM
Looks like the point printable forecast is returning a page
Quote
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 290
Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:38:56 GMT
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:38:56 GMT
Connection: close

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Access Denied</H1>

You don't have permission to access "http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?" on this server.<P>
Reference #18.963819b8.1427823536.276aa2a
</BODY>
</HTML>

They seem to have disallowed HTTP1.0 access (so Akamai sends the 'Forbidden' response).

I've updated the advforecast2.php script to V3.14 31-Mar-2015 to use HTTP1.1 access, and it works again.

Standalone users: download from the script page.
V3 template users: use the update tool page for Base-USA, Plugin-*, 31-Mar-2015 query.

Best regards,
Ken

Ken - as always, you are amazing. Thanks for the help!

I'm having a similar issue with the Forecast Discussion. Any chance you are working your magic on that script as well?

Thanks! Yes, updated the forecast-discussion.php to V1.05 (31-Mar-2015) too

http://saratoga-weather.org/scripts-NWSmisc.php#NWSAFD

Intheswamp · « **Reply #22 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:42:21 PM »

No way, dude!!!! This is KRAZY!!!!! (Note the capital K!!!)

I was telling someone the other day that Cumulus and the templates are so solid that I've forgotten a lot of what I learned in putting the station online to start with!!! I looked then and the last time the system was down was 62 days ago....and that was from an extended power outage where my back-up power when down, too!!!!

I went to look at the forecast (how I found out it was down) and panicked...thinking "Dude, you don't have a clue how to get this going again!!!!" Well, I logged onto wxforum.net and naturally, what's at the top of the "new messages"?....you got it, this thread!!! So's I mosey over to Ken's website, fumble around on trying to figure out what I (the brain-dead one) am supposed to do. I download the new advforecast2.php file, change my warning zone, upload it to the server and SHAZAMMMM!!!!!!!!...I GOT FORECASTS!!!!! $\:D/$ That was slicker'n a bowl of boiled okra with a slab of fatback in it!!!!!

Thanks Ken, you *are* incredible at keeping things going smoothly...regardless of the curveballs that the NWS throws ya....you always hit a homerun!!!!!

Ed

cospringswx · « **Reply #23 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:46:31 PM »

Uncle Ken to the rescue. Will download new version after work. Thanks Ken.

ValentineWeather · « **Reply #24 on:** March 31, 2015, 04:53:38 PM »

Quote from: Intheswamp on March 31, 2015, 04:42:21 PM

No way, dude!!!! This is KRAZY!!!!! (Note the capital K!!!)

I was telling someone the other day that Cumulus and the templates are so solid that I've forgotten a lot of what I learned in putting the station online to start with!!! I looked then and the last time the system was down was 62 days ago....and that was from an extended power outage where my back-up power when down, too!!!!

I went to look at the forecast (how I found out it was down) and panicked...thinking "Dude, you don't have a clue how to get this going again!!!!" Well, I logged onto wxforum.net and naturally, what's at the top of the "new messages"?....you got it, this thread!!! So's I mosey over to Ken's website, fumble around on trying to figure out what I (the brain-dead one) am supposed to do. I download the new advforecast2.php file, change my warning zone, upload it to the server and SHAZAMMMM!!!!!!!!...I GOT FORECASTS!!!!! $\:D/$ That was slicker'n a bowl of boiled okra with a slab of fatback in it!!!!!

Thanks Ken, you *are* incredible at keeping things going smoothly...regardless of the curveballs that the NWS throws ya....you always hit a homerun!!!!!

Ed

I didn't change the warning zones. I think the settings php overrides the updated advforecast2.php.

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Author Topic: NWS Forecast Feed Broke (Read 14932 times)