Albert the InfoGipsy Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Is it just me? I have two saved links to Meteo France -- national & local forecasts. Today both of them take me to a site that claims to be M-F, but is entirely in English and where all the links on the page return a 'search not found' message. The address bar shows http: / /token.meteofrance.com/ ?u=%68%74%74%70%3A% followed by loads more %xx sets (I've added extra spaces to stop the address being shown as clickable). I also get a beep when I reverse out of the page -- no obvious pop-ups or even warnings.I get the same thing if I get to M-F via googling, so it's not just my links. My other favourites work normally, even ones I haven't used for months, so I don't think it's malware on my machine.Admittedly it took several attempts to get into here this morning, but that never surprises me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazandcol Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Well, it's not just you - exactly the same for me! I even tried typing the original address into the browser, but it still goes to the "token.meteofrance.com" siteMost annoying is the fact that the links and search go nowhere so you don't even get any weather forecast anyway. Maybe the site's just not functioning properly yet, or maybe somebody has 'highjacked' France meteo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judie Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 My saved bookmark for my local Meteo-France weather is fine, so not very helpful, I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Araucaria Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 [quote user="Judie"]My saved bookmark for my local Meteo-France weather is fine, so not very helpful, I'm afraid.[/quote]My saved bookmark takes me to a "Network Solutions" website - and I think it suggests that the domain - www.meteofrance.com - is available for purchase (or needs renewing). I'm using Firefox - do you have a different browser?[edit] In my case the address bar just says "http://france.meteofrance.com/france/accueil?xtor=AL-1", which isn't quite what I type in. But I can also get exactly what I thought I wanted - "www.meteofrance.com" in the address bar, but still with the wrong website. Does anyone have the numeric IP address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 Having had a further search using google.fr I've managed to find this link that works normally.http://france.meteofrance.com/france/accueil/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Araucaria Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 [quote user="Albert the InfoGipsy"]Having had a further search using google.fr I've managed to find this link that works normally.http://france.meteofrance.com/france/accueil/[/quote]That one takes me to the Network Solutions website. Grrrrrr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 All normal here from my link: http://france.meteofrance.com which is the same one I've had for 5 years.It takes me to the same place as Albert's link and not to Network Solutions website !Firefox BTW but it's the same in IE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 We use lachainemeteo.com You can save a town or village as your home place. Only problem is that sometimes, not often, the advert video plays on top of the forecast! We use adblock plus (Firefox) but have to unblock this site as otherwise the actual weather videos don't play.H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 You can do the same in Meteo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 Looks like someone might have fixed things.I updated one of my shortcuts but not the other. Now both open M-F normally, one to the national weather and one to the local. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazandcol Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 I've just had another play...I was originally using i.e. when it all went wrong. I've tried with GoogleChrome and absolutely no problem getting to the weather via typing in the address (france.meteofrance.com). So I copied the address from the address bar. Then back to i.e. and deleted my bookmarks for the meteo, pasted the address into the address bar and hey presto - no problem. Re-saved the bookmark and now it's fine in i.e. and Chrome. Not tried Firefox yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 The link by ANO works fine for me too. Albert, what have you been up to? [:'(]Another site I quite like for weather not only in France but further afield too ishttp://woozor.be/meteo-gratuite-10-jours/meteo-de-bruxelles-en-belgique_22_1652_be.htmlIt defaults to Belgium but of course you can select whatever country you want, it's a 10 day forecast as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Of course if you were all on Linux you could have this useful application http://www.iloveubuntu.net/my-weather-indicator-05-released-yahoo-and-wunderground-weather-sources[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 It's back again! And the address bar shows http://france.meteofrance.com/france/accueil/, which is what I used earlier to get to the genuine M-F site.I use IE, but my wife has just googled her way to it using Firefox on her Mac and got the same problem.At one stage I also got a popunder with other 'suggested sites'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Araucaria Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 What I did was to delete the (Firefox) bookmark, restart the computer, and find the site again (and bookmark it).Now it's back to being a proper weather forecast.Though I do wonder what had happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Given their inability to forecast the weather round here, perhaps hijacking and replacing with weather strippers might be a reasonable idea - the idea being that the girlies remove or put on clothes according to the actual weather. Well, it is better than the present arrangement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 All I got this morning was a blank white page, but it's all fine now apart from the 10/10 cloud cover [:-))]The yahoo weather site was the same too? I wonder if someone knicked all the weather and for once there wasn't weather in all areas?Wolly, you should know that they have the biggest computers in the world so that they can predict the wrong weather faster than anyone else. To use you silly idea all they would do is make a boob quicker! You are a silly boy at times [:P]As a matter of interest, did you realise that a good metrologist is a bloke who can look into a girls eyes and tell whether [6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 I must be an excellent one then, cos it's always (s)no(w) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kong Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I think you might find the problem is with DNS. If IP addresses have been changed for a particular domain, new addresses are published to the millions of DNS servers throughout the world. It can take hours or days for these updates to propogate worldwide and may not have reached your DNS/ISP. Using different machines on the same internet connection gave me the same wrong sites, so it's not the machine that is at fault. If you are using windows you can clear the DNS cache in your machine using the command line command: ipconfig/dnsflush. This might help!Kong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Araucaria Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 [quote user="Kong"]I think you might find the problem is with DNS. If IP addresses have been changed for a particular domain, new addresses are published to the millions of DNS servers throughout the world. It can take hours or days for these updates to propogate worldwide and may not have reached your DNS/ISP. Using different machines on the same internet connection gave me the same wrong sites, so it's not the machine that is at fault. If you are using windows you can clear the DNS cache in your machine using the command line command: ipconfig/dnsflush. This might help!Kong[/quote]Thanks Kong - that sounds logical. It was just peculiar to see something like that happen and not know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kong Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Hi!. It's only just now that I have been able to get onto the site. So maybee my prognosis was right. Glad you're sorted.Regards Kong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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