Server error if I click on the link of the 'JPL Small Bodies database'

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Hi, :slightly_smiling_face:

If I click on: ‘Look up in JPL Small Bodies’ database on the page of the ‘single image exposures’ I got a ‘server error’.
Can the link with the JPL Small Bodies database be fixed Dustin? @dstn
Thanks.

Ine :stars::dizzy:

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I got the same thing

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Hi Ine,

It looks like JPL has blocked our web server, possibly due to excess rate of requests. I have written them a note asking what’s up.

It looks like the “Direct Link to JPL query” links still work … that causes your web browser to make the same query we make, but without formatting the results nicely.

Thanks for letting me know about this.

cheers,
dustin

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I got a reply from JPL – apparently they got so much load from the sky viewer web server that they blocked it. They have requested I implement a queuing system so that only one requests occurs at a time. I frankly don’t have time to do that, so for now I have removed the JPL lookup link. You can still use the “Direct link”.

I suspect this was one of the web scraper bots. They are rabid these days.

cheers,
dustin

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Hi,

If I click on the ‘direct link query’ I got this (see image) :slightly_frowning_face:

Kind regards from Ine :stars::dizzy:

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This seems to be what the direct link should display, an information display to find an asteroid query. The name should be displayed on the “Warning” display.

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Yes, that’s right, this link was the only one I could find where I can send in the query parameters. It is returning results in “JSON” format, meant to be parsed by computers… but you can see the “warning”: “no matching records” result, which means that it didn’t find a match.

(This is why I used to have a link where the viewer web site would do the query and then format the results nicely for you, but the JPL folks did not like that!!)