freduse not working in Stata 18

[Patrick J. Flaherty]

I just installed Stata 18 and when I use freduse I get this error:

. freduse CTNA, clear
note: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred...ddata/CTNA.txt redirected to
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/C...ddata/CTNA.txt
header entry of unknown type encountered
unknown header type = <!DOCTYPE_HTML_PUBLIC_"-//IETF//DTD_HTML_2.0//EN">
value of unknown header =
no variables defined
r(111);

I am able to import the data using import delimited using "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CTNA/downloaddata/CTNA.csv", clear but it would be great if my old code still worked.

The freduse command is working in Stata 17 (still installed on my computer).

[Daniel Feenberg]

Stata http procedures do not follow http redirects. You could try editing freduse.ado to change the hostname in the URL.