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Deal with servers being down for maintenance #55

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keflavich opened this issue Feb 27, 2015 · 0 comments
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Deal with servers being down for maintenance #55

keflavich opened this issue Feb 27, 2015 · 0 comments

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adsbibdesk was failing silently for me for the past day, which is because the ESOADS server has been down for maintenance. Here's the page they return:


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<body>
<center>Maintenance operations are in progress from Thursday 26 February 16:00<br>
UTC until Friday 27 February 08:00 UTC. Apologies for the inconvenience.<br>
<br>
Until this maintenance is completed, please use the main ADS<br>
Abstract server at <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html">http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html</a>. Thank you.</center>

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It would be good to either (a) report this as a failure on the command line or (b) use alternate mirrors when one is down.

I'm not sure how best to do this, though - perhaps at the start of any adsbibdesk session, the main page of the mirror should be loaded and searched for key terms? Or we could look for http://adsabs.mirror.xxx/abs and if there is no response from the server (anything other than an http 200 response), do (a) or (b)?
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