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Why bother ? Everyone who has used it knows that quote.com's historical data
is "full of holes" and is totally unreliable.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Matulich [mailto:alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:13 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Free EOD ascii USA Stock Quote here....
>
>
> Bob Hunt wrote:
> [regarding http://unicorn.us.com/quotes.html ]
>
> >Your web page indicates that you plan on providing access to Quote.com
> >intraday data files. That will be fantastic!
> >
> >Do you have any idea when that aspect might be up and running?
>
> No, and here I need help from a network-protocol-savvy type.
>
> That qutoe.com historical data section was the result of me using a
> packet sniffer to see how "Historical Quotes Downloader" commercial
> software at http://www.quotelinks.com/downloader.html managed to
> download histories from quote.com without having to subscribe, when
> quote.com wants you to subscribe.
>
> The software has a 10-day free trial. It's worth the $40 cost in
> my opinion, but I wanted to be able to do the same thing from a web
> page.
>
> According to the packet sniffer logs, the Historical Quotes
> Downloader initiates a TCP connection with the server
> "charts-d.quote.com" and sends it a certain URL string with
> several parameters as a request using the GET method. My web page
> reproduces all that exactly.
>
> However, the problem is that the Historical Quotes Downloader sends
> the request using the SSL protocol rather than TCP. I thought
> maybe sending the request to https://charts-d.quote.com rather than
> http:// would solve the problem, but it didn't.
>
> I'm using the unix Ethereal packet sniffer ported to windows
> (freeware); see http://www.ethereal.com -- I'll be happy to send the
> data downloader sniff logs to anyone who cares.
>
> -Alex
>
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