Work around for broken radar.weather.gov server

diff --git a/src/plugins/radar.c b/src/plugins/radar.c
index 1f34fb34ba276330a317341769076dccde8bbb16..e31b281b72758020f7f200059613ca70439e4484 100644 (file)
--- a/src/plugins/radar.c
+++ b/src/plugins/radar.c
@@ -483,17 +483,28 @@ gpointer _conus_update_thread(gpointer _conus)
 
        /* Find nearest */
        g_debug("Conus: update_thread - nearest");
-       gboolean offline = grits_viewer_get_offline(conus->viewer);
        gchar *conus_url = "http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/RadarImg/";
-       GList *files = grits_http_available(conus->http,
-                       "^Conus_[^\"]*_N0Ronly.gif$", "",
-                       NULL, (offline ? NULL : conus_url));
-       gchar *nearest = _find_nearest(conus->time, files, 6, "%Y%m%d_%H%M");
-       g_list_foreach(files, (GFunc)g_free, NULL);
-       g_list_free(files);
-       if (!nearest) {
-               conus->message = "No suitable files";
-               goto out;
+       gchar *nearest;
+       if (time(NULL) - conus->time < 60*60*5){
+               /* radar.weather.gov is full of lies.
+                * the index pages get cached and out of date */
+               struct tm tm;
+               gmtime_r(&conus->time, &tm);
+               time_t onthe8 = conus->time - 60*((tm.tm_min+2)%10);
+               gmtime_r(&onthe8, &tm);
+               nearest = g_strdup_printf("Conus_%04d%02d%02d_%02d%02d_N0Ronly.gif",
+                               tm.tm_year+1900, tm.tm_mon+1, tm.tm_mday,
+                               tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min);
+       } else {
+               GList *files = grits_http_available(conus->http,
+                               "^Conus_[^\"]*_N0Ronly.gif$", "", NULL, NULL);
+               nearest = _find_nearest(conus->time, files, 6, "%Y%m%d_%H%M");
+               g_list_foreach(files, (GFunc)g_free, NULL);
+               g_list_free(files);
+               if (!nearest) {
+                       conus->message = "No suitable files";
+                       goto out;
+               }
        }
 
        /* Fetch the image */