Problems downloading stock quotes [RESOLVED] possible security issue

[Richard Geddes]

Phil,

Do you mean that F::Q works like the browser?  When you ask the browser
to get a quote, you get all the advertising with it, and so when F::Q
gets a a stock quote, F::Q also gets the advertising... and can't
complete the transaction without making a connection to the advertising
website?  

I re-applied the ad blocker, and with my browser, was able to get a
quote for RHAT AMD from the yahoo website successfully.  When I tried "
gnc-fq-dump yahoo RHT AMD" from the command line and it failed.  This
leads me to think that F::Q does not work like the browser... it looks
like F::Q needs to have name resolution for a set of advertisers on that
ad block list.  My web browser also responds the ad blocking aliases in
the hosts file.

I used yahoo, usa, nasdaq as sources and got consistent results.

Richard

Phil Longstaff wrote:
>    What quote source do you use?  I know that F::Q reads the html from your
>    quote  source  and  parses  the html to find the quote.  Perhaps it is
>    downloading the advertising from that site as well.
>    Phil
>    Richard Geddes wrote:
>
> Derek,
>
> I finally resolved my problem... took a little head scratching.
>
> I forgot I modified my hosts file as specified by:
>
> ad blocker [1]<http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html>
>
> this modifies the hosts file so that all known advertising sources are
> aliased to 127.0.0.1
>
> I was trying to pinpoint exactly which advertising source
> Finance::Quotes modules requires to get the stock quotes, but it seems
> like it changes...  seems like the authors of Finance::Quotes are
> involved in some advertising scheme...
>
> hope they are not sending other info, in particular, my financial
> information to these advertisers.
>
> You're a security guy... what do you make of this?
>
> Richard
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>
> What happens when you try gnc-fq-dump ?
> Maybe your quote source changed their website?
>
> -derek
>
> Richard Geddes [2]<rich.geddes at verizon.net> writes:
>
>
>
>
> I was using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several months.  Set up s
> ome stock investments and downloaded stock prices with Tools -> Price Editor ->
>  Get Quotes.  This worked ok until about 3 weeks ago.  Now I get a message "The
> re was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes."
>
> I did install a firewall management program called "Firestarter" between the ti
> me gnucash was working and when it stopped working... I've since  uninstalled F
> irestarter.  I tried getting stock quotes after stopping my firewall using "/et
> c/init.d/iptables stop".  No difference.
>
> I also upgraded to gnucash 2.2.1.  No dice.
>
> I uninstalled gnucash altogether and reinstalled it, but still getting the same
>  message.
>
> I even thought of uninstalling perl as the module gnucash uses to get the quote
> s is in perl... but, it seems that many apps on my system depend on perl... on
> my ubuntu system, if I try to uninstall perl, it also includes (to uninstall) p
> retty much all the apps I've installed.. does that sound correct...?
>
> Anyway, my beef isn't really with perl, although it seems that if there was som
> ething goes wrong with perl, alot of things depending on it would also go down.
> ... I just want to get my stock quotes so I can see my current asset values to
> make decisions without pulling out the calculator.
>
> Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem?  Thanks.
>
> Richard
>
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>    1. http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
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