{{Quickfixn}} Reuters - Is there anything illegal about this message?

Wed Feb 13 07:48:09 PST 2013

So Reuters is the Initiator and your app is the Acceptor?  That's
weird.  (I don't have experience with Reuters.)

And Reuters is completely unpredictable in when they connect to you?
This is going to be very difficult to debug if you can't even run
basic connection scenarios to test your connectivity.

And the fact that you have multiple failure scenarios that can't be
reproduced repeatedly does not help things.

I think there is some missing information here, perhaps some
misunderstanding of how the Reuters connnection works.  Something just
smells wrong.

When you see the next failure, please retain TWO log files - the event
log and the mesage log.  They should have corresponding timestamps.
Please indicate which party (XXX or YYY) is Reuters.  (Honestly, I
don't see any security risk to leaving the compids in there; it's the
username/password that need to be secret.)

-Grant

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Marco Samaritoni
<Marco.Samaritoni at twofour.com> wrote:
> My apologies for the confusion...
>
> Attached you will find the log file, XXX-YYY (edited for compid/username/pw).  The thing about it is that I don't know when I am going to receive a login message from Reuters, and when we're going to just see our outgoing messages in the logs.  I have left the connection alone since about 3pm Eastern time, and see fluctuating statuses in the event and message logs.  Sometimes, it will be a connection being forcibly terminated, while at others, it will be that field 49 is out of order, and that that message is rejected.  As of now, it's only the SocketException (0x80004005) message I see.
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
> Marco Samaritoni
> TwoFour
> 10 Bank Street
> White Plains, NY 10606
> Main       +1(914) 220-8800
> Direct   +1 (914) 220-8865
> Fax           +1(914) 220-8899
> WWW.TWOFOUR.COM
> HTTP://WWW.TWOFOUR.US.COM/EMAILDISCLAIMER/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of Grant Birchmeier
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:33 PM
> To: Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
> Cc: Kevin Ouderkirk
> Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} Reuters - Is there anything illegal about this message?
>
> I'm a little confused.  You've sent two different event log snippets in your various mails.  One says "Field 49 out of order", and the other says "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host".  The former is a messaging problem.  The latter could just mean the other side is shut down for the day.
>
> Does the message log you sent me correspond to the former or the latter?  Given the timestamps, I'm thinking the latter, and it doesn't look like the problem you asked about in your first mail.
>
> Can you get a fresh set of corresponding event/message log excerpts (2
> files) that illustrate your messaging problem?  Please attach them rather than paste them (as FIX's special SOH characters don't usually survive pasting).
>
> -Grant
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Marco Samaritoni <Marco.Samaritoni at twofour.com> wrote:
>> Yup, tried that parameter, didn't do the trick.was thinking that
>> perhaps they would need that set up on their end?  As for the logs, do
>> you mean messages.current.txt?
>>
>>
>>
>> 20130212-21:59:41.053 :
>> 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149=XXX52=20130212-21:59:40.99156=YYY98=0108=301
>> 41=Y553=XXX554=YYY1137=710=057
>>
>> 20130212-22:00:11.133 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:00:11.07056= YYY 98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=030
>>
>> 20130212-22:00:41.134 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:00:41.07256= YYY 98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=035
>>
>> 20130212-22:01:11.557 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:01:11.47956= YYY 98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=044
>>
>> 20130212-22:01:41.590 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:01:41.48056= YYY 98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=039
>>
>> 20130212-22:02:11.576 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:02:11.52956= YYY98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=041
>>
>> 20130212-22:02:43.577 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:02:41.53056= YYY98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=036
>>
>> 20130212-22:03:11.813 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:03:11.73556= YYY 98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=041
>>
>> 20130212-22:03:41.814 : 8=FIXT.1.19=12835=A34=149= XXX
>> 52=20130212-22:03:41.73656= YYY 98=0108=30141=Y553=XXX 554=YYY
>> 1137=710=045
>>
>>
>>
>> That's all I have set up, a place for a log (stores the
>> messages.current and
>> events.current) and a store in the initiator file; if there's an
>> option to set up more logging, I will gladly set it up
>>
>>
>>
>> Marco Samaritoni
>>
>> TwoFour
>>
>> 10 Bank Street
>>
>> White Plains, NY 10606
>>
>> Main       +1(914) 220-8800
>>
>> Direct   +1 (914) 220-8865
>>
>> Fax           +1(914) 220-8899
>>
>> www.TwoFour.com
>>
>> http://www.twofour.US.com/emaildisclaimer/
>>
>>
>>
>> From: quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com
>> [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of Mike Gatny
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:03 PM
>>
>>
>> To: Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
>> Cc: Kevin Ouderkirk
>> Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} Reuters - Is there anything illegal about
>> this message?
>>
>>
>>
>> As a workaround for the time being, have you tried setting
>> ValidateFieldsOutOfOrder=N in your config file?
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Quickfixn mailing list
>> Quickfixn at lists.quickfixn.com
>> http://lists.quickfixn.com/listinfo.cgi/quickfixn-quickfixn.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Grant Birchmeier
> Connamara Systems, LLC
> Made-To-Measure Trading Solutions.
> Exactly what you need. No more. No less.
> http://connamara.com
> _______________________________________________
> Quickfixn mailing list
> Quickfixn at lists.quickfixn.com
> http://lists.quickfixn.com/listinfo.cgi/quickfixn-quickfixn.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Quickfixn mailing list
> Quickfixn at lists.quickfixn.com
> http://lists.quickfixn.com/listinfo.cgi/quickfixn-quickfixn.com
>

-- 
Grant Birchmeier
Connamara Systems, LLC
Made-To-Measure Trading Solutions.
Exactly what you need. No more. No less.
http://connamara.com