More Problems with fetching prices

Viktor Rosenfeld rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de
Mon, 03 Sep 2001 16:01:41 +0200


Randall Hopper wrote:
> 
> Viktor Rosenfeld:
>  |I tried the price editor for my foreign currency accounts, but I get the
>  |following error message:
>  |
>  |      "Unable to get quotes or diagnose the problem"
>  |
>  |At the console, there's only the following output.
>  |
>  |(handling-request ("currency" "USD" "DEM"))
>  |(handling-request ("currency" "ILS" "DEM"))
>  |(handling-request ("currency" "RUB" "DEM"))
> 
> I hit this yesterday with one of Fidelity's funds.  Surf this URL and
> you'll see why:
> 
>    http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=USD&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv
> 
> Whenever the needed values are N/A in yahoo's DB, that seems to be the
> message GNUCash gives in response.

I don't think that's the source for my problems.  The page loaded is
http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?s=USD&t=DEM, and the page displayed is fine.

Ciao,
Viktor
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