[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[Adrien Monteleone]

It doesn’t make any sense to me either. But curl works, perl doesn’t. What does that perl script actually do when it tries to pull that URL?

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 13, 2019, at 9:17 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> The URL is given several times in the thread, it's http, port 80. That aside, get real: A firewall that blocks a port when perl's LWP is the agent but not when curl or a web browser is?
> 
> Besides, the request isn't blocked, it's munged so that Yahoo! returns a 500--server error response. So we have to imagine that the router can somehow tell that the packets are coming from curl and not messing with them or perl LWP and messing with them? That's a pretty amazing firewall.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>> On Apr 13, 2019, at 2:32 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> 
>> More likely a blocked port though since the OP said curl works to retrieve the same URL, but not perl. A look at the perl script will probably expose the issue.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Apr 13, 2019, at 4:29 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A different router could also mean a different ISP, a different DNS, and
>>> that is just the starting point...
>>> 
>>> David Carlson
>>>