kweather has problems querying the reqested station

[Erik Jakobsen]

Jan Drugowitsch wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I've recently updated to KDE 3.2 (Gentoo). Since then, kweather doesn't seem 
>to work properly anymore. The station I'm requesting info from is 
>'EEGL' (London / Heathrow) but I always get the error message
>
>"The requested station does not exist!"
>
>and the kweather applet icon shows the question mark. If, however, I click on 
>the applet directly if get a report with all the correct information from 
>EEGL.
>
>Doing a little network sniffing it shows that kweather polls weather.noaa.gov 
>with .../stations/EGLL.TXT correctly, however, setting the 
>'If-Modified-Since' flag in the HTTP query. That results in a '304 Not 
>Modified' response. Afterwards it polls ...stations/NONE.TXT and receives 
>'404 Not Found', causing the above error message.
>
>Clicking on the applet doesn't cause any network traffic but shows the correct 
>weather report in the status dialog. Hence, it is obvious that the applet 
>already has the correct information and just doesn't show it.
>
>I haven't found any bug report about that, yet. Has anyone encountered 
>anything similar?
>
>TIA, Jan
>  
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I had the same problem on SuSE 9.0. But a reboot cured it.

Erik.

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