[ phpweather-Bugs-808981 ] the weather reports don't work on the main site

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Bugs item #808981, was opened at 2003-09-19 01:15
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Etienne Tourigny (etienne_t)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: the weather reports don't work on the main site

Initial Comment:
It seems that the main site is misconfigured for

fetching METAR data.  All I get is:



Sorry! There's no data available for Coventry Airport,

United Kingdom.



I've tried other stations and languages and I never get

a report.



Everything is fine in my local copy.

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>Comment By: Martin Geisler (gimpster)
Date: 2003-09-30 16:48

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Yes, you're right, we could perhaps go through a proxy.



The problem is just that all network related functions in

PHP seam to fail. I've just played with the popen() function

because I wanted to use the GET program available on SF.

When I do a 'GET http://foo.bar/' in a shell it works as it

should, but then I do it from PHP I get nothing in return. I

can open other programs with popen() but the GET programs

doesn't work?!



My test is in /home/groups/p/ph/phpweather/htdocs/test.php

if you want to play with it...

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Comment By: pavlos kairis (kairis)
Date: 2003-09-30 02:38

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martin



phpweather has the capability to go thru a proxy. Could you 

simply add proxy info so that METAR data comes across?



Pavlos



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Comment By: Martin Geisler (gimpster)
Date: 2003-09-19 03:16

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Yes, you're perfectly correct. This is an both embarrassing

and annoying problem --- it's embarrassing because it's been

like this for way too long, and it's annoying because the

solution isn't all trivial.



The problem is that SourceForge employ a strict firewall

around the webservers running www.phpweather.net. The

firewall makes it impossible for PhpWeather to contact the

NWS directly and fetch new weather reports, we have no

access to the outside world from PHP on the webserver.



I've tried to setup a system where the data were downloaded

from the NWS once an hour by an external cron job and then

uploaded to SF via SCP, but it never fully worked.



If you want to work on this (and the website in general)

then please let me know and I'll help you as I can.

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