On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:07:36 +0000
N_Cook wrote:

On 21/11/2014 09:03, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:49:02 +0000
N_Cook wrote:

Anyone worked out how to get directly to the replacement images
that were until yesterday, the likes of
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...FSXX00T_72.jpg
without the intrusive commercialism
or is it part of the corporate ethic to annoy as many people as
possible decoding the likes of 20310161 for monday and 20306270 for
today's image

Could you please post a page that exists? All I'm getting for that
link is 404.


impossible as now day and time varying dynamic? URL the likes of
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/d...uctId/20306268
the clue is in the URL, 2 mentions of the word product

Sorry, I misread your first post. Having had another look at the
problem, I see that you have to get at the page you want via
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather and that the page you taken
to from the "Surface pressure charts" link doesn't have a refresh
facility. This seems a bit like a return to the bad old days when I was
still working there - it could even have been last century - when we
were told not provide direct links to pages but to only refer customers
to the main Met Office homepage. This policy was later relaxed.

I don't see why a "refresh" button couldn't be fitted to the page but
then I know little about these technicalities. However, I do know of
other sites where a similar backtracking process is necessary and the
reason doesn't seem to be commercial but just that they probably haven't
thought of it.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
[Retired meteorologist and computer programmer]
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