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COD weather pages needing a password

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 4:23 pm
by alanduckers
Noticed COD is now asking for a username and password for its Metar,Upper air and Synoptic raw data.
Is this a permanent change does anybody know and have we lost another data stream ?

Re: COD weather pages needing a password

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:44 pm
by Budgie
Getting the same thing here but I've not had a chance to have a proper look yet, so just turned off Digatmos for now.

Re: COD weather pages needing a password

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 8:47 pm
by Budgie
Statement about this on the COD website: https://weather.cod.edu/analysis/
Attention User:

Update (9/25/2024 20:24:10): Due to recent security requests from our IT department we are no longer going to be able to provide open/unauthenticated access to browsable data directories. Namely this affects our Digital Atmosphere data at https://weather.cod.edu/digatmos. We are still able to grant authenticated access which will require us to register users. If you previously used any of this data, please write us using our feedpage form and request "access to digital atmosphere data". We will manually register users per request and provide instructions on how to automate data retrieval going forward. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience with these changes.

For further information, check the following twitter accounts for periodic updates on product generation status and website improvements; @CoDWXData and @CODMeteorology. Your feedback is always appreciated, so feel free to respond to tweets or send us an email using our Feedback page.

Re: COD weather pages needing a password

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:35 am
by alanduckers
Many thanks for that and have requested access to the Digital Atmosphere data,
Alan

Re: COD weather pages needing a password

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:52 pm
by Phil Layton
I see the data is available again this morning from COD (just as Northern Illinois went down!) without a password.

In fact the update is:

Update (10/1/2024 08:38:14): We have appealed the decision made by our IT department to lock open directories under specific permissible conditions. Specifically this has allowed us to re-open https://weather.cod.edu/digatmos. Thank you to all of you who wrote in, politely asking for credentials for the data in a timely fashion. This helped us draw attention to the issue and we are hopeful that we will be able to keep data directories open in a manner that satisfies security concerns. Again, thank you for your patience.

For further information, check the following twitter accounts for periodic updates on product generation status and website improvements; @CoDWXData and @CODMeteorology. Your feedback is always appreciated, so feel free to respond to tweets or send us an email using our Feedback page.

Re: COD weather pages needing a password

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 1:12 pm
by alanduckers
Yes thanks for that Phil and i had already received a password from them before getting a email to say it was not needed :-P
cheers,
Alan

Re: COD weather pages needing a password

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 4:18 pm
by mrwx
Yup! got my message this morning, tested it, no issues! YAY!
Sebenste, Gilbert<sebensteg@cod.edu>

Hello Ron,
Per the message on our website, we were allowed to have that directory unblocked. We have once again made it free and clear for all to use.
Gilbert Sebenste
Meteorology Support Analyst