I have also some problems with yahoo.finance.quotes in Spanish StockExchange, looks like something not working well. Hope they will solve it asap!

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Same problem for me with GeoPlanet. It replies" ERROR 418: unused " when my server tries to open the page.

If I test from another server (different IP), no problem. Is there a kind of blacklist ?

This just started happening to me today for geoplanet lookups.

If I use my browser to retrieve the xml response it works perfectly. If I try to do it programmatically using PHP, I get the 418 unused error.

I'm on Dreamhost.

My app is here: http://woeid.rosselliot.co.nz/

and has been running perfectly for well over a year using the geoplanet api.

Problem went away, then came back.

If any of the mods could pass this thread on to whoever can look at the problem, that would be most appreciated.

Can you share what YQL query you are using that causes this issue?

Daniel, here's my query string:

http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('london');count=0;format=xml;view=long;lang=en?appid=12345

And that has never changed during the life of the app. It's only recently that I've had 418 errors returned.

This clearly is not a YQL issue since Ross is directly using the Placefinder API and is running into the same 418 error. The Placefinder table runs on top of the Placefinder API so if the underlying API does not work correctly neither will the table.

You'll need to address your concerns to the BOSS team since this is outside the scope of YQL. However, I do want to mention that BOSS does state they no longer actively support the free APIs and encourage using BOSS Geo instead:

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/