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Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:23:10 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: I looked around.

In <3AEDCE93.688D@peterskye.com>, on 04/30/01
at 01:44 PM, Peter Skye said:

>[Steven - you open a socket and send a "form request" to Yahoo!, and they
>send back the data you requested. I used IPTrace/IPFormat to capture the
>form information. Open a socket on Port 80, send and receive, close the
>socket. You can capture volume at the end of the day with a different
>request.]

You are working way too hard. I prefer to avoid working from first
principles and modified some of Rollin's code with some wrapper stuff to
convert to response to CSV and pull it into my local historical database.

Does this look familiar?

str = "GET /d/quotes.csv?s=" || quotes || "&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv
HTTP/1.0" || CRLF || CRLF

Steven

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