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I have a web query embedded within a spreadsheet that up until recently was working just fine. It goes out to Yahoo's website and grabs financial data in .csv format and brings it back to the spreadsheet. This macro and connection works fine for others as well as for me at work, but at home I am getting an error message stating that the connection was made but the data was not available. This seems to be related to either my computer or my internet connection. I am currently on Comcast High Speed Internet at home, but others are able to use their cable internet as well as T1 lines to access the info. It will even work on a dial up connection. Does anyone have an idea as to why this could be happening? I have tried power cycling my cable modem to acquire a new connection but that does not seem to help. The interesting thing is that up until today I was able to eventually get the macro to grab the data from the website, but it took many tries. Tonight I am not able to grab the data at all. Even if I try to right click on the cell in the spreadsheet and attempt to just refresh the query, it says: Unable to open. http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=.....=.csv and that the internet site reports that a connection was made but the data was not available. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea what would have caused this or why it started. Thanks Matt |
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I and many others have exactly the same problem. It's to do with changes made at Yahoo. See my other post on this topic. Their link has changed. If you left click their download link it now loads the data into your browser window rather than giving you the option of saving a CSV file. If you right click you get an error. This error, which you get from within IE, is also preventing web queries from working. I have found this is quite Windows/browser version specific. It may depend on the security patches applied to IE as well. With IE 5.1 I don't have problems. With IE 6.0 with the latest security patches I now (as at a few days ago) cannot get it to work. Send a note to Yahoo -- it's definitly their service that's the problem. But who knows whether it is something intentional on their part or whether it's just a bug which they will fix. "Matt Day" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a web query embedded within a spreadsheet that up until recently was working just fine. It goes out to Yahoo's website and grabs financial data in .csv format and brings it back to the spreadsheet. This macro and connection works fine for others as well as for me at work, but at home I am getting an error message stating that the connection was made but the data was not available. This seems to be related to either my computer or my internet connection. I am currently on Comcast High Speed Internet at home, but others are able to use their cable internet as well as T1 lines to access the info. It will even work on a dial up connection. Does anyone have an idea as to why this could be happening? I have tried power cycling my cable modem to acquire a new connection but that does not seem to help. The interesting thing is that up until today I was able to eventually get the macro to grab the data from the website, but it took many tries. Tonight I am not able to grab the data at all. Even if I try to right click on the cell in the spreadsheet and attempt to just refresh the query, it says: Unable to open. http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=.....=.csv and that the internet site reports that a connection was made but the data was not available. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea what would have caused this or why it started. Thanks Matt |
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Is there a way to convert to an older version of IE?
Thanks Matt "Peter Benson" wrote in message ... Matt I and many others have exactly the same problem. It's to do with changes made at Yahoo. See my other post on this topic. Their link has changed. If you left click their download link it now loads the data into your browser window rather than giving you the option of saving a CSV file. If you right click you get an error. This error, which you get from within IE, is also preventing web queries from working. I have found this is quite Windows/browser version specific. It may depend on the security patches applied to IE as well. With IE 5.1 I don't have problems. With IE 6.0 with the latest security patches I now (as at a few days ago) cannot get it to work. Send a note to Yahoo -- it's definitly their service that's the problem. But who knows whether it is something intentional on their part or whether it's just a bug which they will fix. "Matt Day" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a web query embedded within a spreadsheet that up until recently was working just fine. It goes out to Yahoo's website and grabs financial data in .csv format and brings it back to the spreadsheet. This macro and connection works fine for others as well as for me at work, but at home I am getting an error message stating that the connection was made but the data was not available. This seems to be related to either my computer or my internet connection. I am currently on Comcast High Speed Internet at home, but others are able to use their cable internet as well as T1 lines to access the info. It will even work on a dial up connection. Does anyone have an idea as to why this could be happening? I have tried power cycling my cable modem to acquire a new connection but that does not seem to help. The interesting thing is that up until today I was able to eventually get the macro to grab the data from the website, but it took many tries. Tonight I am not able to grab the data at all. Even if I try to right click on the cell in the spreadsheet and attempt to just refresh the query, it says: Unable to open. http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=.....=.csv and that the internet site reports that a connection was made but the data was not available. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea what would have caused this or why it started. Thanks Matt |
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