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

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 12, 2026, at 11:25, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> On 07/12/2026, at 10:35:52 +1000, Peter Lamb wrote:
> 
> 
>> In my original post I said that I'd run sudo gnc-fq-update - it was what
>> changed the Get Quotes behaviour of Gnucash 5.16 from hanging to giving
>> the error messages that I've described.
> 
> 
> If you want to test F::Q completely independent of GnuCash, you can use the example stockdump.pl script that is included in the tarball from CPAN. Or directly from the F::Q Github repository.
> 
> 
> 
> cd /tmp
> 
> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/refs/heads/master/Examples/stockdump.pl
> 
> --2026-07-12 11:16:27-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/refs/heads/master/Examples/stockdump.pl
> Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 2606:50c0:8002::154, 2606:50c0:8000::154, 2606:50c0:8003::154, ...
> Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|2606:50c0:8002::154|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 500 [text/plain]
> Saving to: ‘stockdump.pl’
> 
> stockdump.pl        100%[===================>]     500  --.-KB/s    in 0s
> 
> 2026-07-12 11:16:28 (19.2 MB/s) - ‘stockdump.pl’ saved [500/500]
> 
> 
> perl stockdump.pl asx QAN
> $VAR1 = {
>          'QANtype' => 1,
>          'QANbid' => '10.33',
>          'QANvolume' => 3729869,
>          'QANask' => '10.43',
>          'QANerrormsg' => '',
>          'QANsuccess' => 1,
>          'QANnet' => '0.0199999999999996',
>          'QANcurrency' => 'AUD',
>          'QANsymbol' => 'QAN',
>          'QANprice' => '10.41',
>          'QANmethod' => 'asx',
>          'QANlast' => '10.41',
>          'QANp_change' => '0.192492781520689',
>          'QANname' => 'QANTAS AIRWAYS LIMITED'
>        };
> 
> 
> I hope this helps.

Bruce,

Assuming that the problem is with SSL, either TLS level or a certificate problem, what should Peter upgrade? Crypt::OpenSSL ?

Regards,
John Ralls