YahooWeb failing with "Header line too long" error about finance-quote

[bpschuck]

@fabrica64

I don't know if it is just for me but from April 15 I get this error trying to use YahooWeb

I believe Yahoo may have changed the format which affect the various regex screen scraping that the YahooWeb module uses.

Thanks.

[bpschuck]

Adding this as notes for when I (or someone else) works on pull request.

I can fix the "500 Header line too long (limit is 8192)" error by adding

use LWP::Protocol::http;
push(@LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS, MaxLineLength => 0);

near the top of the YahooWeb.pm module. BUT, the format of the page returned has also changed. Good news is that it includes JSON which is easier to parse.