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

On 13/7/2026 20:02, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> If you have installed OpenSSL in anyway (natively hopefully it compiled and installed with no issue; or through homebrew) then installing those additional modules in Perl is not going to cause any problems. Just install them in that order.

Hi, Kalpesh, thanks for the suggestions.

Before I started using Gnucash 5.16, the OpenSSL that was installed on 
my MacBook was working just fine.

I don't use homebrew at all, for Perl or for anything else.

> I also recommend to run:
>
> #cpanm --scandeps Finance::Quote
I don't have cpanm installed, I've been using cpan to do updates, and it 
doesn't appear to have a corresponding option.

> Alternate I can suggest is to run
>
> openssl s_client -showcerts -servername <website_name> -connect <website_name>:443 </dev/null
I've done that, and it appears to establish a connection, but then gives 
a "poll error" error message (which may be just because stdin has been 
fed from /dev/null):

    ... lots of other debug stuff including dumps of certificates ...
    SSL handshake has read 4478 bytes and written 401 bytes
    ---
    New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384
    Server public key is 2048 bit
    Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
    Compression: NONE
    Expansion: NONE
    No ALPN negotiated
    SSL-Session:
         Protocol  : TLSv1.3
         Cipher    : AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384
         Session-ID:
         Session-ID-ctx:
         Master-Key:
         Start Time: 1783989375
         Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
         Verify return code: 0 (ok)
    ---
    poll error

> Perhaps you may also want to try to see if F::Q works with another pricing source (Yahoo for example) and be able to fetch pricing from there. You will have to work through all these to find a single thing that is hick-upping.
I tried that, and I get the rather less than helpful error message 
"Error accessing www.yahoo.com:", when I try to fetch the QAN price 
either in Gnucash or direct in Perl. I get the same error whether I use 
yahoojson or yahooweb as the source.

    % /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli -V -Q dump
    yahoojson QAN
    Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli
    Finance::Quote reported a failure for symbol QAN: Error accessing
    www.yahoo.com:
    %

The error may simply be because I'm using the wrong symbol, but the 
error message is unhelpful in that regard. I tried all of QAN, AX.QAN 
and ASX.QAN.

Cheers,
Peter
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