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Hi

I'm in the process of learning C# and wish to wriite a web service that accesses stock information from yahoo or another server.

In the example a symbol is sent to yahoo and the stats for that symbol are returned. Is there any way to access sets of data from yahoo or another server, such as all symbols in the Dow Jones or all symbols along with their quotes that are currently in the FTSE 100 or is it only possible to request symbols one at a time.

Also could anyone give me a few tips on understanding the last part of the string that is sent to yahoo.

string serverURL = @"http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s="+symbol+"&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgvj1pp2owern&e =.csv";


Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.