Download of sun astronomical data failed with HTTP Status Code 403, Reason phrase: Forbidden

The weather plugin has recently stopped displaying any data. Running PANEL_DEBUG=weather xfce4-panel gives the following relevant output:

(wrapper-2.0:19087): weather-WARNING **: 18:26:18.079: Download of sun astronomical data failed with HTTP Status Code 403, Reason phrase: Forbidden

Right-clicking and selecting "refresh" does not change anything or create any additional output. However, if I change the location to something else (i.e. New York City) and select refresh, the plugin crashes:

**
weather:ERROR:weather.c:1539:update_weatherdata_with_reset: assertion failed: (data != NULL)
Bail out! weather:ERROR:weather.c:1539:update_weatherdata_with_reset: assertion failed: (data != NULL)
xfce4-panel(external): weather-23: child is unembedded
xfce4-panel(external): weather-23: child exited with status 6
xfce4-panel-Message: 18:28:03.677: Plugin weather-23 has been automatically restarted after crash.
xfce4-panel(external): weather-23: scheduled a respawn of the child
xfce4-panel(external): weather-23: child spawned; pid=19574, argc=7
xfce4-panel(external): weather-23: child is embedded; 9 properties in queue

(wrapper-2.0:19574): weather-WARNING **: 18:28:04.246: Download of sun astronomical data failed with HTTP Status Code 403, Reason phrase: Forbidden

I am running Debian Sid. Here is my relevant system information:

# apt list --installed xfce4 xfce4-weather-plugin
xfce4/unstable,unstable,now 4.20 all [installed,automatic]
xfce4-weather-plugin/unstable,now 0.11.2-1+b1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

# uname -a
Linux divine-geometry 6.12.17-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.17-1 (2025-03-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Additionally, I have tried to query the API in the same way the source code does via cURL to see if it's an issue with my IP, which doesn't appear to be the case.

curl -fsSL "https://api.met.no/weatherapi/locationforecast/2.0/classic?lat=40.712728&lon=-74.006015&altitude=85" | head -n 10

<weatherdata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://schema.api.met.no/schemas/weatherapi-0.4.xsd" created="2025-03-12T22:42:44Z">
  <meta>
    <model name="met_public_forecast" termin="2025-03-12T19:00:00Z" runended="2025-03-12T19:16:39Z" nextrun="2025-03-13T01:16:39Z" from="2025-03-12T22:00:00Z" to="2025-03-22T00:00:00Z"></model>
  </meta>
  <product class="pointData">
    <time datatype="forecast" from="2025-03-12T22:00:00Z" to="2025-03-12T22:00:00Z">
      <location altitude="85" latitude="40.71272" longitude="-74.00601">
        <temperature id="TTT" unit="celsius" value="8.8"></temperature>
        <windDirection id="dd" deg="154.9" name="SE"></windDirection>
        <windSpeed id="ff" mps="2.9" beaufort="2" name="Svak vind"></windSpeed>
...

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Hi, please see: https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2025-March/038447.html

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In case it helps @audrey or anyone else coming from Debian, below are instructions of building the deb package from salsa source because I didn't have success with the upstream source version and couldn't find a backport either:

git clone --depth=1 https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-team/goodies/xfce4-weather-plugin
cd xfce4-weather-plugin
dpkg-checkbuilddeps
#> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: xfce4-dev-tools
sudo apt install xfce4-dev-tools
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
#> /usr/bin/msgfmt: error while opening "@MSGFMT_OPTS@" for reading: No such file or directory
git clean -f
sed -i '/@MSGFMT_OPTS@/d' po/Makefile.in.in
dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
cd ..
sudo apt install ./xfce4-weather-plugin_0.11.3-1_amd64.deb

I apologize if posting here in this issue tracker is not the best place; I thought posting here would be more relevant than the mailing list because there error report here is related to Debian.

@omsai Thanks a lot for your commands and now xfce4-weather-plugin works like a charm on my Ubuntu

same issue here with pristine Debian12 package: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.11.2-1

Read the announcement before posting +1 comments.

i read the annoucement before posting. downloading and installing https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/xfce4-weather-plugin/download fixed my setup

The package found here https://mxrepo.com/MX23packages.html (scroll way down) works just fine with Debian Bookworm.