[GNC] Access problems fetching shares prices from Australian Stock Exchange

[Peter Lamb]

I'm getting error messages when I try to fetch share prices from the 
Australian Stock Exchange (ASX/AX) in GnuCash.

When I use Tools>Price Database, Get Quotes, there's a delay of a few 
seconds then an error message popup:

    Quotes for the following commodities were unavailable or unusable:
    * ASX:QAN Finance::Quote reported failure with error: Unable to
    fetch data from the ASX server.
    'https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/companies/QAN/header'.
    Status 500 Can't connect to asx.api.markitdigital.com:443 (SSL
    connect attempt failed error: 14077410:SSL
    routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Followed by similar messages for all the share codes that I'm attempting 
to fetch (QAN is the share code for Qantas). Apologies for any 
transcription errors: the popup doesn't allow me to copy/paste from it.

If I paste 
https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/companies/QAN/header 
into Firefox 152.0.5 (for macOS), it fetches correct JSON data for 
ASX:QAN without errors.

The setup for QAN in the Security Editor is:
Full name: Qantas
Symbol/abbreviation: QAN
Display symbol QAN.AX
Namespace: ASX
Get online quotes: checked
Type of quote source: Single, Australian Stock Exchange, AU

But I assume that they are correct, because the correct URL for the 
Qantas price data seems to be being generated.

GnuCash: Version: 5.16 Build ID: 5.16+(2026-06-27) (for Intel macOS)
Finance::Quote: 1.70
macOS: Sequoia 15.7.7 (24G720) (for Intel)

My last successful fetch was on 21 June 2026, using Gnucash 5.15-1 for 
Intel macOS and (I think) Finance::Quote v1.56. Using Finance::Quote 
v1.56 in GnuCash 5.16 hangs without any error message.

Should I have updated something else in the Perl library (the SSL 
libraries, for example), or have I missed anything?

Any help would be appreciated,
Peter