#1 Inability to add stocks

[kevind]

Have installed this app (V0.04) on both a home PC (XP Home) and a work PC (XP Pro). Both share internet access via the same WLAN router but the Pro machine does so via a secure (company) VPN.

Ther home machine works fine but the work one refuses to add stocks, complaining after about 30 secs with a dialog box entitled "Ughh..." that simply says "Couldn't find that symbol! Double check it."

What's up?

[rosejonescolour]

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I'll look into this issue - no other gadget (say weather) has an issue on your work PC?

[kevind]

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Just checked the weather gadget and it works fine (and still can't add stocks). Ideas?

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Well, that error message occurs when I attempt to query the finance.google.com site with the stock symbol you specify. I'm not really doing anything fancy except opening an http connection to the page. Not sure if you really want to investigate this, but if you unzip debugview and run it - you can probably get more information. The link to debugview is: http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/DebugView.zip.

Otherwise, I can try to recreate your environment. I have a VPN to work that I can connect to from home and see if it'll fail for me. Then I can investigate.

Thanks