xfce4-weather-plugin stopped working with "Invalid License Key"

[Greg Folkert]

On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 18:43 +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote: 
> * Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> [2011-11-05 16:58]:
> > On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 23:15 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: 
> > > On ven., 2011-11-04 at 23:05 +0100, Christof Meerwald wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > just noticed that the xfce4-weather-plugin stopped working for me - in
> > > > the HTTP response I can see "Invalid License Key"...
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > See http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/goodies-dev/2011-October/003139.html
> > 
> > What is "Weather report" (aka gweather) doing differently that xfce4
> > plugin is not doing?
> 
> If you are referring to the GNOME's libgweather, it uses several
> different sources (www.bom.gov.au, www.weather.gov,
> weather.noaa.gov, www.metoffice.gov.uk), see the code available
> at http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgweather/

Its also contacting (at least for the US) weather.com, in fact the Radar
Images are from there as well.

Line 91 of:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgweather/tree/libgweather/weather-wx.c

Shows its also using "image.weather.com" and is variablized

To get something like:
http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_mkg_closeradar_medium_usen.jpg

Its gets forecasts from:
Australian Bureau of Meteorology forecast source (variablized)
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/%s.txt

US National Weather Service IWIN forecast source (variablized) 
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/sample_products/browser_interface/ndfdBrowserClientByDay.php?&lat=%.02f&lon=%.02f&format=24+hourly&startDate=%04d-%02d-%02d&numDays=7

UK Met Office forecast source (variablized) 
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/%s/%s_forecast_weather_noscript.html


So... I guess its not using Weather.com for anything except the Radar
Image.

Since these are publicly funded entities (except for weather.com), could
it be done similarly?
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