Problems getting quotes for funds

[Paul Stansell]

Hello everyone,

I wondered if anyone could shed light on any recent changes which may have 
stopped the "Tools: Price Editor: Get Quotes" for Funds from working in 
gnucash-2.2.3.

Shortly after 29th Jan 2008 the automatic price retrievals started failing 
for all my funds.

The error message is, for example,

   Unable to retrieve quote for these items: FUND MFEXPG.L

where MFEXPG.L is an example of a fund symbol that used to work okay with 
"Tool: Security Editor: Fund: Type of quote source" set to "Single: 
Yahoo".  I've tried changing settings to other sources, but with no luck. 
I've also tried changing the fund symbol, for example, using 
GB0003243465GBP, but that did help either.

If I choose "Yahoo Europe" I get the error message "There was an unknown 
error while retrieving the price quotes."

In the days of gnucash-1.8.12-0.fc4 there used to be a perl script called 
dump-finance-quote which could be run on the command line, eg,

   dump-finance-quote yahoo MFEXPG.L

I tried running this command on an old fedora4 system, but it no-longer 
works either, or at least, not for this fund symbol for which it used to 
work.

Thanks for your help,

Paul Stansell