Archive User Interfaces: Abandoning the Request Handler
Published: 24 Jul 2025
As of Monday 28th of July 2025, the archive user interfaces will no longer offer the option to download data via the Request Handler. The Download Portal will remain the only choice available for web-access to archival data.
Scripts, including older versions of astroquery (before v 0.4.7), which use the Request Handler (search for string /rh/), won't be affected by this change, though please be aware that within the summer we will publish a new archive news explaining how to move away from it using a new version of astroquery (ready but not yet published by the astroquery team).
The programmatic access layer based on VO standards (TAP, Datalink, etc.) is not using the Request Hander to access the data, hence won't be affected by this change.