Re: Retrieving Prices from the Internet

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Posted by Mark on March 21, 2007 at 10:39:24:

In Reply to: Retrieving Prices from the Internet posted by Bilal Alam on March 21, 2007 at 05:18:25:

: Hi,

: Currently the only prices that can be retrieved are from servers represented in the quote server module.

: This is very limiting (especially for Managed Funds).

: What would be nice is to have support for RSS client that can grab prices from user configured internet address.

: Or perhaps a http grabber which takes in an internet address plus a keyword to extract prices from anywhere on the internet.

: What would it take to get you to add that support :-)

: Thanks,
: Bilal.

Hi Bilal,

I agree that would be a nice capability, but implementing it is rather difficult, unless there is a standardized format. Each of our currently supported quote servers is a custom written parsing routine. Adding support for a generic server would require the user to define the parsing routine, which would be very difficult....

Thanks,
Mark
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Fund Manager - Portfolio Management Software

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