hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu images unreachable — infinite 301 redirect loop (1,730/6,463 train images)

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All images hosted on hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu are currently unreachable due to a misconfigured nginx redirect. The server returns a 301 that prepends /imagearchive/ to every request, creating an infinite redirect loop:

$ curl -sI "https://hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu/SupplementalPhotos/Localization_Scenes/D2-EX2301-06/Deep_Discoverer_23010006--6dba2f1b-4aa0-41c9-bdff-fa61343f30a9.jpg"

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.29.5
Location: https://hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu/imagearchive/SupplementalPhotos/...

$ curl -sI "https://hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu/imagearchive/SupplementalPhotos/..."

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu/imagearchive/imagearchive/SupplementalPhotos/...

Each subsequent request adds another /imagearchive/ prefix, looping indefinitely.

Impact

• 1,730 of 6,463 training images (26.8%) are affected — all URLs with hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu host
• 3,369 of 22,225 annotations (15.2%) are inaccessible
• Several categories are severely impacted:

Category	Missing	Total	% Lost
benthic worm	60	60	100%
jelly	114	114	100%
amphipod	54	58	93%
sea pen	41	50	82%
bivalve	44	56	79%
sea cucumber	289	378	76%
sea snail	30	52	58%
anemone	571	1124	51%
sea star	319	624	51%
isopod	14	28	50%

• The 4,733 images hosted on d2l7vcm2vanphr.cloudfront.net download without issue.

Environment

• Tested with curl, httpx (via download.py from this repo), and the FathomNet API
• The FathomNet API (fathomnet-py) also returns the same broken URLs
• The issue is server-side (nginx misconfiguration on hurlimage.soest.hawaii.edu)

Request

Could the server team fix the nginx redirect configuration, or could mirror URLs (e.g., via CloudFront) be provided for these images? The download.py script supports resuming, so participants can re-run it once the URLs are fixed.