FITS Web Service

You may use our test upload function below:

Basic Usage Details:

For additional information please refer to the FITS homepage.

• Conventions Used In Examples:
  Below are the conventions we will be using within the examples given.

  /fits

  The context root is assumed to be /fits. Your context root may be different depending on installation

  HOST

  Refers to your server where fits has been installed.

  PORT

  Refers to the port on which fits is running.

  REMOTEFILE

  Refers to the filename with full path on the FITS server to examine

  LOCALFILE

  Refers to a file which you will upload to FITS with full path

• Endpoint: /examine
  Examining a file and returing the corresponding metadata containing both FITS output and standard schema output in XML format. (See FITS for more information.)

  GET (using curl):

  curl --get -k --data-binary file=REMOTEFILE http://HOST:PORT/fits/examine

  GET (using browser):

  http://HOST:PORT/fits/examine?file=REMOTEFILE

  POST (using curl):

  curl -k -F datafile=LOCALFILE http://HOST:PORT/fits/examine

  POST (using browser):

  http://HOST:PORT/fits/index.html Use the upload form.

• Endpoint: /version
  Obtaining the version information for FITS being used to examine the input files returned in plain text format. (GET request only)

  GET (using curl):

  curl --get http://HOST:PORT/fits/version

  GET (using browser)

  http://HOST:PORT/fits/version

• Information
  The return of any fits call will be a structured XML. If the file is properly identified this will be the FITS output, if there is an issue with the uploaded file an XML error response.