[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[Ronal B Morse]

Maybe a firewall configuration issue? Bruno's router might be blocking a 
required port where his neighbor's is not.

RBM

On 4/12/19 9:54 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 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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