We have had a few clients running into issues with the Stock Quote Web Part, I am working on an updated documentation/troubleshooting guide but for now here are a few issues you might run into (especially if you are wanting to hit your own local web service to pull stock information which is faster).

1. Within your WSS\ directory you will want to modify your web.config. There is a line that looks like

2. Within your WSS\wpresources\ directory there is another web.config file. You will want to modify this web.config and remove the lines at the top relating to the .asmx files ( I believe its something like... ) This is necessary in order for the web service to work on your local system.

3. If the web service works on your system (you can test by navigating to http://yoursite/wpresources/Stock-Q...arch.asmx)  but its still not working on your within the web part then make sure you enable anonymous access to a user (with very little rights). This is done in IIS, open the properties within IIS for the WSS site, go to directory security, and enable anonymous access to the default user or a user with limited rights. You can still have windows authentication enabled.

-Chad

I wanted to follow up on this post...

Many customers have had issues with running this web.part in Medium Trust environment. There is a quick fix to get this to work.

1. Backup this file (just make a backup copy for your own records)
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\config\wss_mediumtrust.config

2. Modify this area of the file:
Within this file there is some text for the web.permission that is limiting it from connecting to yahoo finance.

Change this from:







To:


class="WebPermission"
version="1" >






Replace:


With your domain (make sure to use the \ as mentioned above)

You can open this up even further if you wished but its not needed...

class="WebPermission"
version="1" Unrestricted="true">

This did not show up correctly so I am uploading the 'How to' as a txt file.

-Chad

Thanks for the hints.

I would like to get it working on the internal.  At the moment it gives me an error 403 (forbidden).  I have anonymous enabled, but was unable to find anything in either web.config to do with asmx files.

Not sure what you were referring to for #1 above (first post) as there is nothing there, maybe it was dropped off the post.   ie, looks like ????

same with #2, something like ...

Thankms

Wish I could delete what I posted.  Anyway, I got different error now.  This is when I have mode off and using local server.  I have to get local working, other method is too slow (about 1-2 minutes).

Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not create type 'outthebox.web.services.YahooQuoteWebService'.

Source Error:

Line 1:  
Line 2:  
Line 3:  Imports System.Web

I am having a same problem, getting 404 error. The web service is up and dataspringstocksearch.asmx does not have test button. The local web service is not working, changed web part to use personal web service and stock quote web part started to work again. Want to go back to use sharepoint's local web service? Please advise

Thanks,
Troy

Started getting this.  Nothing has changed from our side.

ERROR:System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at outthebox.web.services.YahooQuoteWebService.GetQuote(String symbol) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Any help would be great

Hi

My developers made the change and we now get the following error:

ERROR:System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at outthebox.web.services.YahooQuoteWebService.GetQuote(String symbol) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

When we put the address (http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d...vj1pp2wern) in a browser, the correct data is displayed.

Is there anything else we have to do?

-Peter

The Stock Quote Web Part makes the site it is on load extremely slow. I noticed in the above posts that there is a way to have the Stock Quote grab information off the local server and then have the local server update the information from the web. This was suppose to help the page load quicker. I was unsuccessful at getting this to work. Just curious if there is a guide for setting up the Stock Quote Web Part to get information from a local server. Thanks!