[webservices] no error code on bad catalog in fdsn event ws

[Chad Trabant]

Hi Philip,

Thanks, we'll file this as a feature request.  It makes that we should be able to check for a known catalog name.

Chad

On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Philip Crotwell <crotwell at seis.sc.edu> wrote:

> 
> I accidentally sent this URL to the event service. PREF is not a valid catalog I know, but the service seemed to simply close the connection rather than sending back a http error code, which makes it harder to debug bad queries.
> 
> http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/event/1/query?&minmag=5.0&maxmag=10.0&catalog=PREF&starttime=2012-04-01T00:00:00.000&endtime=2013-04-02T19:43:34.445
> Deleting the "&catalog=PREF", or changing it to NEIC+PDE results in a valid query with events.
> 
> For comparison, if I change the starttime to be a bad date like
> 
> 32012-04-01T00:00:00.000
> 
> I get back a "Error 400: Bad date value for starttime: 32012-04-01T00:00:00.000" which is helpful in figuring out what I did wrong.
> 
> thanks
> Philip
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