Phil, Do you mean that F::Q works like the browser? When you ask the browser to get a quote, you get all the advertising with it, and so when F::Q gets a a stock quote, F::Q also gets the advertising... and can't complete the transaction without making a connection to the advertising website?
I re-applied the ad blocker, and with my browser, was able to get a quote for RHAT AMD from the yahoo website successfully. When I tried " gnc-fq-dump yahoo RHT AMD" from the command line and it failed. This leads me to think that F::Q does not work like the browser... it looks like F::Q needs to have name resolution for a set of advertisers on that ad block list. My web browser also responds the ad blocking aliases in the hosts file. I used yahoo, usa, nasdaq as sources and got consistent results. Richard Phil Longstaff wrote: > What quote source do you use? I know that F::Q reads the html from your > quote source and parses the html to find the quote. Perhaps it is > downloading the advertising from that site as well. > Phil > Richard Geddes wrote: > > Derek, > > I finally resolved my problem... took a little head scratching. > > I forgot I modified my hosts file as specified by: > > ad blocker [1]<http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html> > > this modifies the hosts file so that all known advertising sources are > aliased to 127.0.0.1 > > I was trying to pinpoint exactly which advertising source > Finance::Quotes modules requires to get the stock quotes, but it seems > like it changes... seems like the authors of Finance::Quotes are > involved in some advertising scheme... > > hope they are not sending other info, in particular, my financial > information to these advertisers. > > You're a security guy... what do you make of this? > > Richard > > Derek Atkins wrote: > > > What happens when you try gnc-fq-dump ? > Maybe your quote source changed their website? > > -derek > > Richard Geddes [2]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I was using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several months. Set up > s > ome stock investments and downloaded stock prices with Tools -> Price Editor > -> > Get Quotes. This worked ok until about 3 weeks ago. Now I get a message > "The > re was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes." > > I did install a firewall management program called "Firestarter" between the > ti > me gnucash was working and when it stopped working... I've since uninstalled > F > irestarter. I tried getting stock quotes after stopping my firewall using > "/et > c/init.d/iptables stop". No difference. > > I also upgraded to gnucash 2.2.1. No dice. > > I uninstalled gnucash altogether and reinstalled it, but still getting the > same > message. > > I even thought of uninstalling perl as the module gnucash uses to get the > quote > s is in perl... but, it seems that many apps on my system depend on perl... on > my ubuntu system, if I try to uninstall perl, it also includes (to uninstall) > p > retty much all the apps I've installed.. does that sound correct...? > > Anyway, my beef isn't really with perl, although it seems that if there was > som > ething goes wrong with perl, alot of things depending on it would also go > down. > ... I just want to get my stock quotes so I can see my current asset values to > make decisions without pulling out the calculator. > > Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Thanks. > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [4]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [6]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > References > > 1. http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html > 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3. mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > 4. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > 5. mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > 6. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel