We provide the service https://offline.bfh.ch for a message on a visited URL wich is offline.
This service works with dynamicly generated messages, configured by values in the URL. As such it usually relies on a web redirect.
Use the following parameters in the offline.bfh.ch URL. The url and infourl parameters are protected against phising. As such, the whole message will be discarded, if the url is pointing outside the bfh.ch domain.
| GET | Value | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| site | Text | The name of the disrupted service. Usually a fully qualified domain name. | Yes |
| reason | [maintenance|incident|construction] | One of the text templates. See Reason below for more information. | Yes |
| from | YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM | The beginning of the maintenance/incident window. | Optional |
| until | YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM | The end of the maintenance/incident window. | Optional |
| url | URL inside bfh.ch domain | A URL displayed in the message. See also redirect and until parameters. | Optional |
| redirect | boolean | If enabled and the time until has reached, an automatic HTTP redirect will point to the url address. By default disabled. | Optional |
| infourl | URL inside bfh.ch domain | An URL for additional information displayed below the message. | Optional |
| lang | [en|de|fr] | Display the message in the given language. Users can always change the language. If not given, the prefered browser language is also considered. | Optional |
By selecting a reason, the corresponding text template will be used. Currently there are following templates defined;
Maintenance-simple and incident-simple are used if there was no timestamp for from and until defined. A such the message “until unknown” is ommited.
This service has no configuration possibilities, as we gather all informations from the URL parameters.
Following URL’s can be used to test the functionality of this service.
We maintain following git repository for source files:
git clone git@git.bfh.ch:services/it/infrastructure/linux/services/offline.bfh.ch.git