Solution to the changing URL of the MPC MPES online service
Registered by
Bogdan Marinov
The access URL of the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet & Comet Ephemeris Service may change occasionally as they change servers. Indeed, this happened in January 2011 and the on-line asteroid search in the Solar System Editor plug-in in Stellarium 0.10.6 is broken. (The URL was hard-coded - and it still is: http://
Timothy Reaves suggested that some kind of redirect using the Stellarium website or wiki can be used to avoid such a situation in the future, similar to the approach used with star catalogs.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Stellarium
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Bogdan Marinov
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Drafting
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 0.11
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Bogdan Marinov
- Completed by
- Alexander Wolf
Related branches
Related bugs
Bug #725870: Wrong URL in online search to import minor planets in Solar System plugin | Fix Released |
Sprints
Whiteboard
I've decided to use a HTTP redirect. A simple implementation has been committed to the trunk, but it needs more work. --BM
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