Unable to receive quote for CURRENCY:EUR

[Mike Alexander]

--On February 3, 2012 11:54:34 AM -0500 David Reiser 
<dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:

> It looks like finance-quote is having troubles with all currencies
> today -- which suggests yahoo has done something again. Last time we
> had a disruption, it went away in a day. We'll see.

Yahoo changed their website and since finance quote works by screen 
scraping it any change is likely to break it.  Actually finance quote 
uses two different URLs to get currency quotes.  One of them changed 
several months ago and it fell back to the other.  That one changed on 
Feb. 1 so it didn't work either.

I've attached a zip file that contains two patches.  The first one 
fixes both of these URLs to work again.  The second is an unrelated 
change that makes very small exchange rates work better.  For example 
the KRW to USD exchange rate was 1 krw = 0.0009 usd before the change 
and it's 1 krw = 0.00089656 usd after.

I've submitted these to the finance quote site, but I doubt much will 
happen with them.  Other patches submitted over a year ago have never 
been applied to the repository and there hasn't been a new version in 
over two years.

           Mike
 
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