excuse me for butting in...

i am realy interested in that stuff for personel (playing around) things. can u tell us more how that works. I.E. "oxmlhttp.Send('s=MSFT,IBM&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv')" how do i know how to put together that string - is that depending on the provider?
can u please tell me how i can find your article you were talking about.

Thanks for your info.


>See Microsoft.XMLHTTP - for example:
>
>

>oxmlhttp = createobject('microsoft.xmlhttp')
>lcurl = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv'
>oxmlhttp.open('POST', lcURL, .F.)
>oxmlhttp.Send('s=MSFT,IBM&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv')
>? oxmlhttp.responsetext
>STRTOFILE(oxmlhttp.responsetext, 'c:\temp\mystockinfo.txt')
>RELEASE oxmlhttp
>

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>BTW, about 2 years ago I wrote a full page article on this very topic and submitted it to FoxPro Advisor for them to publish as either a tip or article. Never heard any response at all either good or bad.
>
>Perhaps that is why FPA is starving for persons to write articles - no feedback...
>
>>I would like to learn how to retrieve stock quotes from any of the available web sites that provide them (Yahoo, MSN, etc.). I know that it is possible to get a quote to downloaded from Yahoo as a .csv file, but I would like to get the info back as a message instead. Help anyone? TIA.