Hi!

I have noticed today that the headlines lookup response messages could be different when requesting almost at the same time.

The following logs has been saved on 1 September 2014 (GMT +7).

1 part of logs:
21:31:04.026 DEBUG >>> NHL,RTI,,x,,,news_nhl@@
21:31:04.636 DEBUG <<< news_nhl,<?xml version='1.0'?>@@news_nhl,<news_headlines>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529069</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140901100025</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Quarterly Corporate Earnings (09/01/14)</text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529039</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140829165621</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Calendars and Reports Update</text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529063</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140829153740</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Commitment of Traders Report </text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529054</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140827104510</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Calendars and Reports Update</text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl,</news_headlines>@@news_nhl,!ENDMSG!,@@

2 part of logs (response is differs):
21:33:11.925 DEBUG >>> NHL,RTI,,x,,,news_nhl@@
21:33:12.476 DEBUG <<< news_nhl,<?xml version='1.0'?>@@news_nhl,<news_headlines>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529069</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140901100025</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Quarterly Corporate Earnings (09/01/14)</text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl,</news_headlines>@@news_nhl,!ENDMSG!,@@

3 part of logs (response the same as 1 part):
21:34:03.575 DEBUG >>> NHL,RTI,,x,,,news_nhl@@
21:34:04.215 DEBUG <<< news_nhl,<?xml version='1.0'?>@@news_nhl,<news_headlines>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529069</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140901100025</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Quarterly Corporate Earnings (09/01/14)</text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529039</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140829165621</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Calendars and Reports Update</text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529063</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140829153740</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Commitment of Traders Report </text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl, <news_headline>@@news_nhl, <id>10134529054</id>@@news_nhl, <source>RTI</source>@@news_nhl, <timestamp>20140827104510</timestamp>@@news_nhl, <text>Calendars and Reports Update</text>@@news_nhl, </news_headline>@@news_nhl,</news_headlines>@@news_nhl,!ENDMSG!,@@

Good morning,

I am not sure why this would be actually. As I try it currently, I get basically what I am seeing in part 2 from your post. But, I have gotten the same thing on each try, so I will run it by the server team to see if they have any ideas to offer as well.

Tim

NHL,RTI,,x,,,news_nhl@@
news_nhl@@,<?xml version='1.0'?>
news_nhl@@,<news_headlines>
news_nhl@@, <news_headline>
news_nhl@@, <id>10134529069</id>
news_nhl@@, <source>RTI</source>
news_nhl@@, <timestamp>20140902050031</timestamp>
news_nhl@@, <text>Quarterly Corporate Earnings (09/02/14)</text>
news_nhl@@, </news_headline>
news_nhl@@, <news_headline>
news_nhl@@, <id>10134529063</id>
news_nhl@@, <source>RTI</source>
news_nhl@@, <timestamp>20140829153741</timestamp>
news_nhl@@, <text>Commitment of Traders Report </text>
news_nhl@@, </news_headline>
news_nhl@@,</news_headlines>
news_nhl@@,!ENDMSG!,

Thanks, Tim.

Today I've reproduced this situation and got the same situation which I've described in my first post.

Btw, this behavior could be reproduced only with different launces of iqconnect.exe. For example, if I connect to IQFeed server and do 100 requests of news headlines by RTI source, I'll get 100 responses that will be the same.
But, if I'll do 2 cycles of following steps:
1. connect to IQFeed;
2. send one request of news headlines by RTI source;
3. save the response;
4. disconnect from IQFeed.
In this case will be high probability that this 2 responses will be different.

I actually thought of the fact that you had to be reconnecting for this to occur after I posted and confirmed that I am seeing this as well. You are connecting to two different server groups, when you see the difference, but why the returns are different I am not sure yet, but I will be discussing this with the server team when they get in this morning.

Thanks for the additional info though and I will keep you in the loop as I learn more,

Tim