The Gaia DR2 photometry plugin currently does not work because of web-service unavailability

[mpyat2]

It seems that the Gaia DR2 photometry web service is not available now. The Gaia DR2 photometry plugin gives the error:

[dbenn]

I've sent an email to the contact email address at Gaia:

https://gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de

giving this as an example request:

http://geadata.esac.esa.int/data-server/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=epoch_photometry&FORMAT=CSV&ID=3105860283909081728

[dbenn]

A reply to that email asked me to submit a ticket via https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/gaia-helpdesk, so I did. The response to that ticket (GXZ-202-84598) was:

Dear David,

Thanks for your interest in the Gaia DR3 data.

Please update the previous url by changing "geadata" to "gea":

http://geadata.esac.esa.int/data-server/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=epoch_photometry&FORMAT=CSV&ID=3105860283909081728 >> http://gea.esac.esa.int/data-server/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=epoch_photometry&FORMAT=CSV&ID=3105860283909081728

For more information about the programmatic access to the DataLink products please have a look at the "DataLink: Command access"tutorial available at: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access#CommandLine_DataLink

Regards, Héctor

[dbenn]

Changed URL as per ticket. Testing.

[dbenn]

This kind of problem is also an argument for plugin preferences.

[dbenn]

Currently see 404 error from:

http://gea.esac.esa.int/data-server/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=epoch_photometry&FORMAT=CSV&ID=3105860283909081728 

So too for:

https://gea.esac.esa.int/data-server/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=epoch_photometry&RELEASE=Gaia+DR2&FORMAT=CSV&ID=3105860283909081728

and

https://gea.esac.esa.int/data-server/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=epoch_photometry&RELEASE=Gaia+DR3&FORMAT=CSV&ID=3105860283909081728

[dbenn]

This DR2 example from the plugin header fails in the same way, with or without RELEASE=Gaia+DR2 added:

https://gea.esac.esa.int/data-server/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=epoch_photometry&FORMAT=CSV&RELEASE=Gaia+DR2&ID=4116592768715278848

[dbenn]

Okay, this was complicated by the fact that the service was down for awhile while I was testing (confirmed via Gaia ticket).

The initial advice to change geadata to gea was insufficient. Also had to change http to https.

[dbenn]

Tested with two Gaia IDs: 3105860283909081728, 5912901375001820288

[dbenn]

Would also be good to be able to load a Gaia file.