gweather & mgetmetar.pl (Return too soon)

[Ed Greshko]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 06:43, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:21:36 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote
> > On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 08:53, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> > 
> > > > Q1 - Does /var/www/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl  exist?
> > > 
> > > Not anywhere on my system. Also, have not been able to find a copy via the
> > > normal search places.
> > 
> > Well, that explains the messages you are seeing in your logs.  
> > Someone is requesting that cgi program...and it doesn't exist.
> 
> Quite so, which brings us full circle back to my original post:
> 
> # grep -i mgetmetar.pl /usr/libexec/gweather-applet-2
> Binary file /usr/libexec/gweather-applet-2 matches
> 
> shows that gweather references mgetmetar.pl. 

Sorry, I hit return too soon....

If you check the gweather applet more closely you will see...

$ strings /usr/libexec/gweather-applet-2 | grep mgetm
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl?cccc=%s

Showing that it is calling mgetmetar on an external site...

So.....

> Thus the thrust of the problem ...
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