"Get Quotes" limit?

[David Carlson]

On 9/16/2013 9:29 AM, Fred Bone wrote:
> [Using GnuCash-2.4.12 on WinXPPro_SP3]
>
> When fetching quotes (Tools->Price Editor / Get Quotes) I find that up to 
> 17 can be fetched at a time, but if I ask for 18 the function appears to 
> hang (the Perl window does not close in over five minutes, instead of a 
> few seconds). It does not seem to make any difference which 17 I ask for 
> (I have a list of about 24 I would like to fetch), though I have 
> obviously not checked all possible combinations.
>
> Is this expected behaviour? If so is it a documented limit?
>
> If it makes any difference, I am fetching from Yahoo-Europe, since most 
> of the securities are on the London Stock Exchange with a couple on 
> Paris.
>
> I can fetch all of them (simultaneously) from the command line with 
> gnc-fq-dump.
>
> I don't think that a (possible) parameter-length limit can be the 
> problem, since the full list comes to only 134 characters.
>
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I get 21 quotes but 2 give errors, so I get a net of 19 quotes in
Windows 7.  One error is that the stock is no longer listed, the other
is the dreaded Template stock.

David C