Connectction times out

[slowtoaccept]

Attempted to connect from simple example:

from pprint import pprint
import noaa_coops as nc
seattle = nc.Station(9447130)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /mdapi/v1.0/webapi/stations/9447130.json?expand=details,sensors,products,disclaimers,notices,datums,harcon,tidepredoffets,benchmarks,nearby,bins,deployments,currentpredictionoffsets,floodlevels?units=metric (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x00000212435D1BB0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond'))

from pprint import pprint >>> import noaa_coops as nc >>> seattle = nc.Station(9447130)>>> from pprint import pprint >>> import noaa_coops as nc >>> seattle = nc.Station(9447130)

Same error with two other local station ids.

[bkposton]

It looks like the mdapi as documented on the noaa site and as used by this project is not currently responding (ex. http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/v1.0/webapi/stations/9414290.json). I just emailed them to ask if this is an outage or a permanent change to other apis which do respond such as https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/webapi/stations/9414290.json.

changing metadata_base_url to seems to work as is right now and allow requests if they don't respond or if it is a permanent change from their end.
metadata_base_url = ('https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/mdapi/prod/webapi/stations/')