Failed to get currency rates from the Central Bank

[Rom888]

When I run:

investments --config ~/investments-data tax-statement ib 2024

I got the error:

E: Failed to process income from stock trading: Failed to calculate results of SGOV selling order from 14:57:32 20.06.2024: Failed to get currency rates from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation: Failed to get currency codes from https://www.cbr.ru/scripts/XML_valFull.asp?d=0: error sending request for url (https://www.cbr.ru/scripts/XML_valFull.asp?d=0).

but curl works fine:

curl https://www.cbr.ru/scripts/XML_valFull.asp?d=0

release v7.2.0
ubuntu 24.04

[KonishchevDmitry]

Ouch, how sad new reqwest errors are...

Please try https://github.com/KonishchevDmitry/investments/releases/tag/v7.2.1 with adding -vv to the command line:

investments --config ~/investments-data -vv tax-statement ib 2024

– this will give us the real error.

Is it a transient error or it persists? Do you use VPN or non-Russian IP? Does the following curl command also works?

curl -v --http1.1 -H 'accept: */*' -H Host: -H 'host: www.cbr.ru' -H User-Agent: https://www.cbr.ru/scripts/XML_valFull.asp?d=0

[Rom888]

This error persisted with v7.2.0, no VPN, curl works.

But v7.2.1 works without that error!

In addition, today I tried v7.2.0 again and it also works!

[KonishchevDmitry]

v7.2.1 actually changes nothing except adding a debug log with the actual error, so it definitely was a temporary issue. Could you please try the curl command above if it will repeat?

When SMO started a couple years ago, CBR has enabled some strange DDoS protection which I've workarounded as the following – 5270ff4 Later it was removed, but the problem you report looks very similar to it.

And of course when I'll find a free time, I'll find a way to include the real human reason to the error.

[Rom888]

The curl command above worked, but I will try it again if the error repeats.

[KonishchevDmitry]

I've added the details to the error in v7.2.2.