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[IDV #BPP-580851]: MesoWest point data

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> > Yuan,
> > I found an old bundle file that accesses data from Mesowest. It
> > used to work, but now does not - same error I reported earlier. In
> > the bundle, I found a line that includes the following:
> >
> > http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/obs_lsa_export.cgi?past=0&rawsflag=3&clat=43.586666666666666&clon=-72.90666666666667&boxrad=1.3866666666666703&hours=1&minutes=60&maxcount=1
> > Actually, I changed %maxcount% to a 1 for testing purposes. Then
> > I entered this line in the address bar of my browser. Back came a
> > csv file with the requested data. Looks to me like the mesowest
> > script works fine. IDV problem ???
> >
> > Perhaps this will help you figure out what is wrong.
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> > Bill  
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> Yes, this will help. At least I know the obs_lsa_export.cgi is still running.
> But the underline problem is still the security connection issue. I have a 
> couple of remote IDV training classes,
> and I will dig into this after this week.
> 
> Yuan
Hi Bill,

I did some digging last Friday and the outcome does not sound good.

The Mesowest chooser has developed a decade ago, and the security protocol of 
HTTP has been greatly changed since then. We 
beef up our SSL/TLS security with stronger ciphers in the IDV and this caused 
the server-side CGI not supporting those ciphers. 

I checked with the Mesowest side to find out details, Zach Rieck the Research 
Associate from the University of Utah told me
the CGI query is trying to access it no longer supported by Mesowest, and they 
moved to the sister site Synoptic Data now, behind
the Synotic Data site is JavaScript. What this means to the IDV is that we need 
to develop a new data chooser, but I don't
enough community support for this new development effort. So I will put it on 
hold and remove the plugin from our list until we 
have the resource to redo this data chooser.

Best,

Yuan


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BPP-580851
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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