Hello all,

I am playing with the URL access method in sas and am wondering if anyone has had any luck in accessing weather data with sas? I am new to this method and have played with some of the stock demos available on sugi papers. I found one paper which uses weather data but when i run the program i get an error..Below please find code and partial log..Any ideas on what may be happening or any other url's that i can get weather data from (particularly daily temps)? --the code is from Sugi paper "interfacing the SAS system with the world wide web" by larry Hoyle...Thanks in advance, Nevin

---------------------------code and log------------------------- filename buoy URL "http://www.met.fsu.edu:80/nws/cgi-bin/buoy.cgi?46045" debug;

data B; infile buoy; keep dt tempair winddir windsp pressure tempsea waveht waveprd; length slash dec $1; input @3 slash char $1. @10 dec char $1. @ ; if (slash eq'/' and dec='.') then do; input @1 utcday 2. @4 utchour 2. @7 tempair 5. @24 winddir 3. @29 windsp 3. @46 pressure 6. @58 tempsea 5. @64 waveht 4. @69 waveprd 3.; curmonth=month(date()); curyr=year(date()); dt=mdy(curmonth,utcday,curyr)*24*3600 +utchour*3600; format dt datetime12.; output; end; run;

NOTE: >>> GET /nws/cgi-bin/buoy.cgi?46045 HTTP/1.0 NOTE: >>> Host: www.met.fsu.edu:80 NOTE: >>> Accept: */*. NOTE: >>> Accept-Language: en NOTE: >>> Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 NOTE: >>> User-Agent: SAS/URL NOTE: >>> NOTE: <<< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found NOTE: <<< Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:46:36 GMT

NOTE: <<< Server: Apache

NOTE: <<< Vary: accept-language,accept-charset

NOTE: <<< Accept-Ranges: bytes

NOTE: <<< Connection: close

NOTE: <<< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

NOTE: <<< Content-Language: en

NOTE: <<< Expires: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:46:36 GMT

NOTE: <<<

ERROR: Invalid reply received from the HTTP server. Use the debug option for more info.