Closed notshi closed 3 years ago
Am currently in contact with UNOPS and they are getting fixes online. Majority of the files are no longer getting 404 errors apart from just these 2 datasets.
Yes! I spotted that earlier, in the IATI data dump error diff. Thatâs great news!
Btw thanks for looping back and updating the issue here! I think we should set up a reminder bot, to encourage issue creators on this repo to routinely check back and see if the problem has been resolved.
apart from just these 2 datasets.
Itâs a revelation to me that error messages get indexed by registry search! Thatâs an amazing easter egg.
Honestly, I didn't think it was going to work so was surprised it did :}
UNOPS was recently (270421) nudged by the tech team about the remaining errors but have yet to respond.
Looks like 1 of the two files have been fixed. https://iatiregistry.org/dataset/unops-multi is still getting 404.
It seems that IATI Support closed the issue before it was solved (unsure why) so I have requested a follow up with a screenshot of the file above getting a 404 error.
Hello! There has been no activity on this issue in the last 30 days. I wonder if it has now been resolved?
If youâre reading this, would you mind checking to see if the issue is still applicable?
Thank you!
There's still an issue, the above linked file is now showing a certificates warning and an access denied message
Have nudged the UNOPS contact and IATI support again. Hopefully something comes through.
Have nudged UNOPS again earlier and they have responded that they are in the midst of fixing this as well as a duplicate identifier issue (unrelated to this thread). However, it is leave season so will take a while.
Will update back when something happens.
Have yet to get a response from the publisher so have nudged them again.
Publisher has responded that they are still waiting on an update from their technical colleague.
Hello! There has been no activity on this issue in the last 30 days. I wonder if it has now been resolved?
If youâre reading this, would you mind checking to see if the issue is still applicable?
Thank you!
Have nudged the publisher again.
As of 10 minutes ago, they were able to remove the problem dataset from the Registry.
Oh I see â sounds like there was a registry issue here?
The publisher said it was a url that previously pointed to a file that is now distributed to individual country files so is no longer updated/used but they were waiting for a confirmation from their tech colleague to delete it.
So the delay was the response and confirmation from that colleague for them to action it on the Registry.
Excellent â thanks for your multiple followups to get this resolved! đđ»
Explanation of the bug
Since 27 February 2021, UNOPS servers hosting IATI data have been responding with a 404 status code.
As per the d-portal example below, this url returns an error https://iati-content.unops.org/data/iati/20210226/iati-activities/iati_activity_KR.xml
However, if you look at the root directory, there are a bunch of urls that are similar but the date is different.
If you then change the date in the url, there is now IATI xml https://iati-content.unops.org/data/iati/20190712/iati-activities/iati_activity_KR.xml
URLs / screenshots
http://d-portal.org/ctrack.html?#view=dash_sluglog&slug=unops-kr
https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/unops
Does the publisher know?
Have you contacted the publisher, and/or IATI Support?
Yes, I have contacted them via their IATI Registry contact and also IATI Support email.