What happens when the CAL ACCESS export is bad?

[aboutaaron]

Today, @mikejcorey and I tried running downloadcalaccess but ran into an invalid zip error. I then tried download and open up the file from the browser and ran into the same error. Seems to me that sometimes CAL ACCESS may register a bad dump.

What should this app do in these instances?

http://www.sos.ca.gov/prd/cal-access/

[palewire]

[mikejcorey]

I have a call in to the SOS (see what I did there?), and they're looking
into it.

On 08/18/2014 02:30 PM, Ben Welsh wrote:

noooes
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/fea54f7182312e3dfbad901687ccca7ebf4faec1/687474703a2f2f69312e6b796d2d63646e2e636f6d2f70686f746f732f696d616765732f6e657773666565642f3030302f3436362f3638302f6230652e676966

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[palewire]

I can confirm I downloaded the file and had the same error.

[mikejcorey]

It certainly might be a bad file, but I think it could also be a timeout
issue on their server -- I only got like 25MB of what was supposed to be
a 660 MB file.

On 08/18/2014 02:39 PM, Ben Welsh wrote:

I can confirm I downloaded the file and had the same error.

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[palewire]

I got 39.8 MB

[mikejcorey]

Yeah, sounds like server ish.

On 08/18/2014 03:03 PM, Ben Welsh wrote:

I got 39.8 MB

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[mikejcorey]

Update: SOS got back to me and said they fixed something. The download worked and parser is running.

[palewire]

Great. Who is the best contact there? It might be good to memorialize that somewhere.

[mikejcorey]

Sean Jensen, or some spelling variation of that (hard to think of a name
that could be spelled in more ways), in the Political Reform Division is
who helped me out today. He's not on the IT side, but has access to the
people who are.

On 08/18/2014 05:01 PM, Ben Welsh wrote:

Great. Who is the best contact there? It might be good to memorialize
that somewhere.

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