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://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/4867)

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

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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