[lug] Gnome Stock Ticker broken recently

Riggs, Rob RRiggs at doubleclick.net
Wed Feb 13 08:30:51 MST 2002


Just so we can all go on to better things, gtik is connecting to
finance1.vip.snv.yahoo.com on port 80. That server is still responding. My
guess is that gtik tries to yank the stock price out of the HTML, and the
page formatting has changed enough to cause that to fail.

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate at natetech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:41 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Gnome Stock Ticker broken recently


have packet sniffer, will travel.  :-)

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:37:06AM -0700, D. Stimits wrote:
> "Michael J. Hammel" wrote:
> > 
> > Thus spoke Rob Riggs
> > > Anyone know what's going on with the Gnome Stock Ticker applet? I
> > > noticed that it couldn't retreive stock data at work today. I tried at
> > > home and the same problem -- "No data available..." error message.
> > 
> > It's dead here too - for the past 2 or 3 days.  I think its data source
has
> > changed somehow, though there isn't any configuration item in the
preference
> > to say where to grab the data.
> 
> I am curious if the data source is a free source? I think most of the
> stock services I've seen listed (well, all) had a fee. Having the source
> it *might* not be all that bad to figure out what has changed.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> > 
> > --
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