Currency quote retrieval - sometimes fails.

[Wouter van Marle]

Hi all,

I've an issue with the currency quote retrieval function of
finance::quote and GnuCash. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. See the
following command line outputs (each command given within seconds of the
previous one finishing).

[wouter at cm222 ~]$ gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR
1 USD = 0.7665 EUR
[wouter at cm222 ~]$ gnc-fq-dump currency EUR USD
1 EUR = 1.3047 USD
[wouter at cm222 ~]$ gnc-fq-dump currency USD HKD
1 USD = 7.7963 HKD
[wouter at cm222 ~]$ gnc-fq-dump currency EUR HKD
1 EUR = <unknown> HKD
[wouter at cm222 ~]$ gnc-fq-dump currency EUR HKD
1 EUR = 10.171 HKD
[wouter at cm222 ~]$

Is there an issue with the Yahoo site that anyone knows of? Or what
could be the matter here?

Also I noticed that the automatic quote retrieval (done in the morning
with a cron job) sometimes gets "HKD in USD", sometimes "USD in HKD". I
haven't found a pattern in this yet.

Wouter.