Finance::Quote and TiaaCref

David Reiser dbreiser at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 25 01:23:37 EDT 2005


On Sep 24, 2005, at 7:37 PM, Kevin Foss wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 13:41 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>
>> returns the most recent data (9/23 at the moment) in the same csv
>> scheme as the old site. It seems either Tiaacref.pm or F::Q is having
>> a problem with the https connection (vs. just http).
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> The issue is more that Tiaacref.pm isn't intelligent so it doesn't
> realize that the selector URL has changed its pointer from http://www5
> to https://www3.  Making the change to the hardcoded URL in  
> Tiaacref.pm
> essentially will fix the problem.

I found that one...

>
> However, being able to do https over LWP requires installation of
> Crypt::SSLeay in Perl or lookup will still fail -- which forces  
> another
> dependency into the equation.
>
> So apply the attached diff (which can be done manually easily enough)
> and make sure you have Crypt::SSLeay installed and all should be well.

It would have taken me a lllooonnnnnng time to find this answer.  
Thank you very much.

>
> -Kevin
> -- 
> Kevin Foss <kfoss at adelphia.net>

Dave


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