Package: xfce4-weather-plugin Version: 0.8.9-1 Severity: serious The location search functionality is currently broken. On investigation, I find the following URL in the source code: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=%s&format=xml (where %s is replaced by the sanitized query string).
Using this URL in Firefox returns plausible results. Searching in the plugin and capturing the wire traffic shows the following: GET /search?q=%s&format=xml HTTP/1.1 Host: nominatim.openstreetmap.org Connection: Keep-Alive (note the lack of a referrer or user agent in the request), to which the server responds with <html> <head> <title>Access blocked</title> </head> <body> <h1>Access blocked</h1> <p>You have been blocked because you have violated the <a href="https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/";>usage policy</a> of OSM's Nominatim geocoding service. Please be aware that OSM's resources are limited and shared between many users. The usage policy is there to ensure that the service remains usable for everybody.</p> <p>Please review the terms and make sure that your software adheres to the terms. You should in particular verify that you have set a +<b>valid</b> referrer or a user agent that identifies your application, and that you are not overusing the service with massive bulk requests.</p> <p>If you feel that this block is unjustified or remains after you have adopted your usage, you may contact the Nominatim system administrator at nomina...@openstreetmap.org to have this block lifted.</p> </body> </head> I understand that the plugin relies on libsoup for this. The documentation for soup_session_new_with_options mentions a SOUP_SESSION_USER_AGENT which one may want to consider using. Incidentally, libsoup supports TLS. An https:// URL would be an improvement, except for debugging (so one may want to add a toggle for this, with https being the default setting).
