[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[John Ralls]

Bruno,

That's weird. No, I can't think of anything associated with your mac's networking config that would cause perl and only perl to fail when using your router/modem and not your neighbors.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 12, 2019, at 8:35 PM, Bruno Acklin <backlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Thanks, confirmed that it’s nothing to do with Perl and gnucash / financequote.
> 
> I connected to my neighbors Wifi and finance quote works like a charm. When I go back through my router I times out again.
> Any suggestion if it is a DNS or a TCP, or UDP poor I should look for and configure?
> 
> Best, Bruno
> 
>> On Mar 30, 2019, at 8:02 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
>> 
>> Stockdump.pl isn't misinterpreting anything. You can pass it multiple symbols and it prepends the symbol to each message so that you know which message goes with which symbol.
>> 
>> It seems unlikely that it's a DNS issue, but you could take the laptop somewhere where there's public wifi and try from there. An Apple Store might be a good choice, because then you can show the problem to a "Genius" and see what they think.
>> 
>> I'm out of ideas for what could be borked with perl. You might try creating a new user and running stock dump as that user (you'll need to adjust permissions in your home directory) just to make sure that it isn't something goofy in your environment.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 30, 2019, at 3:59 PM, Bruno Acklin <backlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> John,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help and patience!
>>> 
>>> I did just that and updated Net::HTTP, as well as LWP, Date::Manip and Finance::Quote again. All of them are confirmed up to date now.
>>> 
>>> But calling …/stockdump.pl still yields an "internal server error” 500:
>>> 
>>> Brunos-MacBook-Pro:~ backlin$ ~/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.47-FVw_VE/Examples/stockdump.pl yahoo_json aapl
>>> $VAR1 = {
>>>         'aaplsymbol' => 'aapl',
>>>         'aaplsuccess' => 0,
>>>         'aaplerrormsg' => 'Error retrieving quote for aapl. Attempt to fetch the URL https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl resulted in HTTP response 500 (Internal Server Error)'
>>>       };
>>> 
>>> Why is stockdump.pl misinterpreting the parameters and prepending apple to ‘symbol’ and ‘success’ and 'error msg’?
>>> 
>>> Still, calling the very URL in the error message using curl works instantly:
>>> Brunos-MacBook-Pro:~ backlin$ curl https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl
>>> {"quoteResponse":{"result":[{"language":"en-US","region":"US","quoteType":"EQUITY","quoteSourceName":"Nasdaq Real Time Price","currency":"USD","fullExchangeName":"NasdaqGS","longName":"Apple ..
>>> 
>>> Could Perl address another "internal server” which times out? A DNS issue?
>>> Do you have any other suggestions to try, or can point out the program hierarchy to trace these calls?
>>> (Again reminding that I have this problem on two independent installations, and it appeared overnight, while gnucash on Desktop, and Perl Terminal window on Laptop were open and running.)
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Bruno
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 28, 2019, at 6:15 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> ~/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.47-XXXXX/Examples/stockdump.p
>>> 
>> 
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