Solid Earth and Images

[jmwebguy]

Has anyone else had issues with using the RETS feed for Solid Earth and grabbing images? I tried VieleRETS and it downloads blank photos.

I tried RETSConnector and I get an error when I try to download the images.

I can get the data fine with both, but not the images.

Any ideas?

[jp.fielding]

we've run into a few oddities there. have you brought up a packet capture yet to see whats coming across the wire? i know one thing we've run into was requesting photo '0', returned a multipart response of all photos (as if we'ld requested '*'). now if the client you're using determines response type based on request type that is a problem. originally the java rets client from cart did, but we changed that after realizing response types arent necessarily bound to the request, aka, a '*' request that would only return 1 photo, will occasionally return non-multipart. i wonder if this might be the issue you're seeing? if not, be aware, some photo issues exist there, but without more info, i can only toss out random hints.

hope that helps,
jp

[chiphunt]

Were you able to get images from Solid Earth using VieleRETS? I'm about to implement VieleRETS and am curious to hear how you got the images. Much thanks...

[Scott.Hack]

Were either of you able to get this to work with your Solid Earth servers? I can't even get it to connect. I can connect fine and pull the data with RETS Connector, but VieleRETS gives me an error 100 and says I have the wrong UN/PW or URL, which isn't the case. The only thing it could be is a client ID, right? But I didn't have to put anything else in RETS Connector.

[x-sol]

Solid Earth increased it's security and that caused problem for VieleRETS the last I heard that issue had been resolved in VieleRETS.

The issue with ListingID:0 pulling multi part was resolved a long time ago.

Are you still having an issue?

And yes if it is going to fixed you'll need a wire or at least some good info.

[Jared]

I have a source file you can use to lean from if you like, it may help. I tried forever to connect to Solid Earth until I realized I can't do it with my connector set to 1.7 I think they are only 1.5 compliant.

Also on some providers the photo path is encoded or in the database so the setting for the DMQL2 type is important.

I suggest you run data and images separate. Sure its a lot more work but until Solid Earth goes to compliant 1.7 it could be a real challenge to get your images.

Zeke is who I spoke to at solid earth.

[Kay]

As far as I know, Solid Earth uses IP restriction as well so you may need to give them your IP. I am also using vieleRETS to connect to Solid Earth. It's been fine so far.