Access to Data and Reports
On this website, data and news download is permitted
to subscribers only. Customers who wish to download STOXX Data,
Reports and Index Review files have to sign up first to MySTOXX.
Once users are recognised, access to the STOXX Data, Reviews and
Reports will be permitted, according to the relevant privileges.
FTP and HTTP Download
For security reasons, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access to STOXX
Data is not permitted. Therefore, the only communication protocol
that lets data files be downloaded from the STOXX servers is HTTP
(Hyper Text Transfer Protocol); that is how the browsers typically
surf the web. In fact, manual download of a data file just
requires a mouse click on the corresponding icon.
Automating Data Download
Automatic data download is facilitated by accepting the user credentials
as "Basic Authentication" header.
It is therefore not necessary nor recommended to write download scripts which
emulate a browser login session.
To schedule a periodic download of one or more files, the easiest
way is to install an HTTP Download Manager on the local computer.
HTTP Download Managers can be easily found on the Internet, either
as proprietary applications or freeware Open Source software.
A suitable Download Manager must allow to specify username and password
for Basic Authentication.
(This is usally called just username/password.)
There you have to insert the user ID (usually your email address)
and password assigned during the MySTOXX subscription process.
(If you enter the wrong username/password, then the downloaded file contains
the HTML code of the login page.)
Automating Download with cURL
If you do not already have a Download Manager at your disposal,
we recommend the Open Source product "cURL".
It is a powerful commandline tool available as ready-to-use packages for a large
variety of platforms at http://curl.haxx.se/download.html.
To download a datafile from the STOXX website, use the commandline
curl --user username:password
http://www.stoxx.com/download/...
If you must go through a proxy in order to reach the Internet, add the commandline switch
curl --proxy host:port
--user username:password
http://www.stoxx.com/download/...
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