[Xastir] TigerMap problems?

Sun Aug 22 19:14:52 EDT 2004

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Tim Connolly wrote:
| Anyone else having problems getting TigerMap recently ? I seem to get one
| good one every 6 hours or so, but during daylight hours (in the US) it
seems
| more miss than hit.
|
| If its not already there, the actually wget string sent to retrieve
the maps
| would be a nice addition to the debug log.
|

Yea - started a thread on that topic on the 20th - should be in the
archives. I think that's what - 4 or 5 of us that've mentioned it now.

Take a look at your ~/.xastir/tmp/map.gif file with a text editor - yea,
text editor - I bet you'll see something like this instead of the
expedted GIF code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a
href="http://homer.ssd.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapper/map.gif?&amp;off=GRID&amp;on=counties&amp;on=CITIES&amp;on=places&amp;on=majroads&amp;on=railroad&amp;off=states&amp;on=interstate&amp;on=ushwy&amp;on=statehwy&amp;on=water&amp;on=shorelin&amp;on=miscell&amp;lat=42.832433&amp;lon=-106.329233&amp;wid=0.307017&amp;ht=0.140000&amp;iwd=1014&amp;iht=630">here</a>.</p>
<hr />
<address>Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) Server at tiger.census.gov Port 80</address>
</body></html>

When mine fails - that's what shows up there. Looks like they're doing
something on the server side to 'throttle back' downloads - maybe a
caching system where they relocated the requested inof?? Hey, for a SWAG
it sounds good.

73

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