get capabilities: Error PERMANENT REDIRECT

[Sonja G]

Unable to connect with WMS server (Jülich) with an old version of MSS-client.

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Get capablilities in horizontal view results in error message:

<wms_control.initialiseWMS>: ERROR: HTTP Error 308: PERMANENT REDIRECT
<wms_control.initialiseWMS>: cannot load capabilities document.. no layers can be used in this view

Get capablilities in vertical view does not ask for usr/password and fails with:

<wms_control.initialiseWMS>: ERROR: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find'
<wms_control.initialiseWMS>: cannot load capabilities document.. no layers can be used in this view

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Seems like updated WMS no longer compatible to old MSS-client.

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Version of mss: Release 1.1beta (old version installed Jun 2016)

Traceback / or Image (pip list):
basemap (1.0.7)
geopy (0.99)
matplotlib (1.3.1)
numpy (1.8.1)
Pillow (2.3.0)
pip (1.5.4)
pyparsing (2.0.1)
python-dateutil (2.2)
scipy (0.13.3)
setuptools (2.2)
six (1.5.2)

Details about python and system (Windows 7):
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:24) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

[Reimar Bauer]

this may be related to #417

PERMANENT REDIRECT sounds like you access the demo instance?

[Reimar Bauer]

for testing purposes the old packages are in the atmo channel https://anaconda.org/atmo/mss/files

[Sonja G]

Connection works with MSS 1.8.2 client on Win7

[Reimar Bauer]

We can only mention in docs that 3 year old version may be not working anymore with newer servers. But we won't fix the old client.