Stock quote can't be updated

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 27, 2017, at 3:40 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Am 27.04.2017 um 23:52 schrieb John Bonnett:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am also suddenly having a problem retrieving quotes from ASX
>> (Australian Stock Exchange). I tried making sure I had the latest Perl
>> but still no luck. It was all working fine until a few days ago, about
>> 21 April
>> 
>> Most of my stocks are on ASX but I have one on NASDAQ that continues to
>> work OK. All the ASX ones now say they cannot retrieve. Something
>> changed at ASX?
>> 
>> I tried running gnc-fq-dump on one stock as follows:
>> 
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump asx AFI
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>    symbol: AFI (deduced)        <=== required
>>      date: ** missing **        <=== recommended
>>  currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>>      last:                      <=\
>>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>>     price:                      <=/
>>  timezone:                      <=== optional
>> 
>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by GnuCash!
> 
> If you run it with the verbose flag
> gnc-fq-dump -v asx afi
> you get additional:
> 
> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock afi
> 
> stock field value
> ----- ----- -----
> afi errormsg: Failed to parse HTML table.
> afi last: **missing**
> afi nav: **missing**
> afi price: **missing**
> afi success: 0
> 
> while
> http://www.asx.com.au/asx/markets/equityPrices.do?by=asxCodes&asxCodes=AFI <http://www.asx.com.au/asx/markets/equityPrices.do?by=asxCodes&asxCodes=AFI>
> returns some data. So it seems, they modified the layout of the page.
> 
>> I am on Windows 10.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> Perhaps Chris can ghelp you.

That's more a problem for Erik, so I've added him to the cc in case he isn't watching gnucash-user ATM.

Regards,
John Ralls