Perl QTracker Code?

[adam12]

Does anyone have some working Perl code or samples?  If not I'm going to do it from scratch and make a CPAN module for it but I'd rather start out on the shoulders on someone else.

Thanks,
Adam

[ColinRiche]

Does anyone have some working Perl code or samples?  If not I'm going to do it from scratch and make a CPAN module for it but I'd rather start out on the shoulders on someone else.

Thanks,
Adam

http://www.boogster.net/blog/?p=4614

if you could give us some feedback here then that would be great

cheers

 

[adam12]

Thanks for the link but that's not exactly what I was looking for.  I want to use a socket made in Perl to suck tick data from MB Trading.

I found this code which the author said should work for the RECDESC record but I don't seem to get any response back.  I called MB Trading and they verified the IP and port are correct.  First I'd just like to make sure I can connect properly.

Any ideas?

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;

sub OpenSocket
{
my $name = '64.93.81.10';
my $port = 5020;
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new('PeerAddr' => $name,
'PeerPort' => $port,
'Proto' => 'tcp')
or die "Can't create socket ($!)\n";
}

sub Send
{
my $data = $_[0];
my $terminator=pack("h2", "FF");
print $socket $data;
print $socket $terminator;
}

OpenSocket();

Send('<RECDESC><ReqType>SNAP</ReqType></RECDESC>');

while (defined($_ = $socket->getline)) {print;}

close $socket;
exit;

[adam12]

Okay I figured something out.  I didn't get that the QuoteTracker API interfaced directly with QuoteTracker.  I thought the API was an interface method to the broker to suck data directly off of their feed.

I wanted to use a Linux box to just sit there and collect data directly from MB Trading.  Is this possible?

[ColinRiche]

Okay I figured something out.  I didn't get that the QuoteTracker API interfaced directly with QuoteTracker.  I thought the API was an interface method to the broker to suck data directly off of their feed.

I wanted to use a Linux box to just sit there and collect data directly from MB Trading.  Is this possible?

Use QuoteTracker to pull in the data from MB
then use QT's API to feed the data into the Linux box

i think i have that correct, Jerry ?

 

[ydfah]

That will work, though you would need to email QT support to get the modification that will allow you to connect to QT API from machines on your LAN.

[ColinRiche]

Adam,

You appear to have some experience with Perl

I want to use Perl on a windows box
but running into problems when installing modules

any tips ?

cheers