[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[John Ralls]

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
>