SVO appears to be down and unavailable - can we bypass an alternative Observatory for getting lightband filters?

[wakatara]

New user of MOSFIT so forgive me if this is answered elsewhere.

Running the software to generate lightcurves with the default model appears to be throwing errors that the SVO is down with a

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to svo.cab.inta-csic.es. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

when I try to reach the site manually after looking in the source code for the pull.

I realize this is an upstream issue from the code (I sent a note to the only contact name I could find online for the SVO to resolve it, but it seems like it may have been down for a while.).

Is there another way to pull the data from one of the other virtual observatories and can that be passed as a parameter?

[wakatara]

For the precise errors, this is what was received:

RuntimeError: cant_read_svo

and the following output...

Found event by primary name `SN1993J` in the `OSC`, downloading data...

Event file:
  /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/cache/SN1993J.json

Basic model file:
  /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/models/model.json
Model file:
  /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/models/csmni/csmni.json
Parameter file:
  models/csmni/parameters.json

Loading module `fitlc` [ 98% ]
Warning: The following wavebands are not supported by the model used to fit this data: `infrared,
optical, ultraviolet`, and have been excluded from the fitting process. To include these bands
anyway (although it is not recommended), add `--exclude-kinds none` to your command.


Downloading bandpass `Subaru/HSC.i2_filter/AB` from SVO...
Warning: Could not download SVO filter (are you online?), using cached filter.
Failed to execute module `photometry`'s process().
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/mosfit", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('mosfit==1.1.8', 'console_scripts', 'mosfit')())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/main.py", line 973, in main
    Fitter(**fitargs).fit_events(**fitargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/fitter.py", line 388, in fit_events
    success = self._model.load_data(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/model.py", line 452, in load_data
    outputs = self.run_stack(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/model.py", line 970, in run_stack
    new_outs = self._modules[task].process(**inputs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/modules/observables/photometry.py", line 435, in process
    self.preprocess(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/modules/observables/photometry.py", line 430, in preprocess
    self.load_bands(kwargs['all_band_indices'])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mosfit-1.1.8-py3.9.egg/mosfit/modules/observables/photometry.py", line 272, in load_bands
    raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: cant_read_svo

[mnicholl]

Hi Daryl, it looks like SVO is back up (at least it works fine for me). If you need a temporary solution, I have a big folder full of filter profiles that have built up from various mosfit runs. If you put these in /modules/observables/filters, and run mosfit with the flag --prefer-cache, it should use the local filters rather than trying to query SVO.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/44pwu9pyxhq2tnx/AABOkpvolcbQ21t55ozHyXOYa?dl=0