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:[email protected] 4. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
