VWD doesn't work for some fond any longer

[Klaus Dahlke]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:32:47 -0400
David Hampton <hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 21:30 +0200, Klaus Dahlke wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > starting last weekend I noticed that VWD.pm doesn't work anymore for some fonds:
> 
> VWD.pm hasn't worked for me for some time so I am unable to test it.  In
> fact, I can't even get the host name used by this module to resolve to
> an address.
> 
> 	> grep URL VWD.pm 
> 	$VWD_FUNDS_URL = "http://www.vwd.gfa-fonds.de/fondspreise/ ...
> 	> host www.vwd.gfa-fonds.de
> 	Host www.vwd.gfa-fonds.de not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> 
> David
> 

Hi David,
download the most recent version of Finance:Quote. There is a chang ein the URL now:

 my $response = $ua->get("http://www.finanztreff.de/ftreff/".
        "kurse_einzelkurs_uebersicht.htm?s=".$fund);

And as said below, use ISIN as stock symbol.

Best regards,
Klaus