Roger Pickard Jun 28, 2011
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Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:50 PM
Subject: [guide-user] AAVSO VSX Guide 8 TDF potential broken
outlinking fix
>I posted an AAVSO VSX TDF some time ago, that works with the
>downloaded from CDS b/vsx version.
>
> Not sure how many are using it, but one feature is the linking out
> to the online AAVSO VSX summary page for latest details held there,
> in full.
>
> Unfortunately AAVSO has decided that they don't like me reading
> their webpages anymore, so have been blocking my IP. This of course
> also includes AAVSO VSX hosted at their domain.
>
> This is no great problem except my IP is a dynamic one from a major
> UK telecom, and consequently changes a lot (sufficient that if I
> really want to read their webpages for any reason I only have to log
> on and off a few times). The consequence of this is that other
> users will also have this IP from time to time, and although the
> coincidence of them also wanting to look at AAVSO VSX is unlikely,
> it does seem as though they have blocked not just one or two IPs,
> but whole ranges, which is more likely to affect others. Simple
> re-login in or readily available webproxies can bypass this, but i)
> not all webproxies are safe to use and ii) this doesn't solve
> outlinking from Guide 8 which is direct and would need a system
> proxy to be set up locally.
>
> So accordingly for anyone suffering from this problem of cosmic
> censorship I've redirected the TDF outlink to the relevant VizieR
> entry. If blocked the OID link from their will fail too, but you'll
> have access to the latest full VizieR listing. I've made VizieR and
> the CDS aware of this closed access aspect of this open access
> database, so the problem may be short lived, but just in case, you
> can use the following tdf instead.
>
> Download the VSX.dat file from B/VSX at VizieR ftp site, ungzip into
> your guide directory, then cut and paste the following into an ascii
> editor and save as vsx.tdf in your Guide directory :-
>
> -------tdf starts next line---------
> file vsx.dat
> title VSX
> RA H 42 9
> units0 -2
> de d 52 9
> text 9 30
> ~b 9 30 %s\n\n
> ~b 40 0 0 Variable\n
> ~b 40 0 1 Suspect\n
> ~b 40 0 2 Nonvariable\n
> ~b 62 30 Type %s\n
> ~r 42 9 \nRA [2000] %R\n
> ~r 52 9 Dec[2000] %D\n\n
> ~b 94 11 Max mag %s\n
> ~b109 0 Min mag %[110,11]\n
> ~b109 0 ( Amplitude %[110,11]\n
> ~r125 13 \nEpoch HJD %s
> ~b139 20 \nPeriod %s days
> ~b 45 1 \n\n
> ~r 1 7
> ^VSX//xhttp://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=B/vsx/vsx&OID=%s^\n
>
> epoch 2000
> sort 1
> type sCaeaeff;x16
> label spaces
> goto spaces
> goto case
> field 0.00 20.00
> shown 0
> end
> -------tdf ended previous line---------
>
> which'll be a work around until aavso realise scientific peer review
> means not blocking people able of critiquing your results and
> science from actually seeing your work just in case you've got it
> wrong and thus puts their public information services on a separate
> domain route to the inhouse aavso stuff they don't want others to
> see and feel a need to have IP blocks upon.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
>
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