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Apple's selfsolve website (selfsolve.apple.com) shows an icon for a serial number. These icons are stored in a CDN in a well known location (based on the model identifier). I want to provide a link to the icon, if it's available, as a URI object for easy fetching.

If there is an error with the info service, throws back a HTML page. Which is not valid JSON

• (this one) https://selfsolve.apple.com/Sorry.do?caller=WC_DEPR_CALL

not sure if this portal is just down or perhaps gone! Anyway, it should throw an Error instead and perhaps continue on to try and find from other sources

Apple embeds several pieces of information in a serial number such as:

• Where the computer was manufactured
• What year it was manufactured
• What week of the year it was manufactured

These values are encoded differently for the old style (11 digit) and new style (12 digit) numbers.

Currently GoldenDelicious doesn't do anything with the values it extracts, and so the raw encoded values are returned for SerialNumber#year and SerialNumber#week. I want to decode this information and provide an estimated manufacture date (week and year) as a Date object. Additionally, I want to find a list of Apple plants and match the code to the location; then I can return a string with the name of the plant.