Bug 147047

Summary: URL for aavso LCG is outdated/broken
Product: [Applications] kstars Reporter: Olivier Vitrat <ovit.debian>
Component: generalAssignee: Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: akarsh.simha, alexey.skladnoy, ewoerner, j55plorenz, ra.rishab, retrry
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Olivier Vitrat 2007-06-21 17:23:18 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

Reported in Debian BTS at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412424

kstars uses a special kstar.pl URL at aavso.org, which attempts to
retrieve a graphical (gif) lightcurve for the given object.  It is
presently broken, quite possibly by changes at aavso.  It should really
use the generic LCG url, parse it, and retrieve the necessary graphic.
Comment 1 Eckhart Wörner 2009-01-04 00:00:06 UTC 
Actually, the URL for accessing the images is still present, and depending on start and end date one gets different errors:
- For valid start and end date you'll get an internal server error
- For invalid start or end date you'll get an image that states "There's a problem with your date"
Comment 2 Alexey Khudiakov 2009-08-20 14:15:45 UTC 
LCGenerator use broken URLs to access. 

http://www.aavso.org/cgi-bin/kstar.pl?2455064?2455064?0007+48??no?no?no?no?no?no?no

Original bug report (in debian bugtrack) suggests to use generic LCG URL
Comment 3 Alexey Khudiakov 2009-08-21 17:08:00 UTC 
Inspection of logs shown that LCGenerator always used URL with multiple question marks. Example of such URL is in message above.
 
Scheme of valid URL is required to fix this bug. 

P.S. I'm afraid it never worked in first place.
Comment 4 Jasem Mutlaq 2009-08-25 19:16:09 UTC 
Confirmed. It actually used to work and it was tested by AASVO and me. But I take it AASVO made changes which wasn't reflected in the kstars.pl script, and now it appears there is another KStars parsing error. On my TODO list.
Comment 5 Jasem Mutlaq 2010-08-29 23:27:48 UTC 
*** Bug 246833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Alexey Khudiakov 2012-04-12 15:45:31 UTC 
For the refence. Link for light curve generator

http://www.aavso.org/lcg