Re: Re: OFX Test Server

I know its a sin, but I have been trying to get "Direct Connect" working
with VB.
I work for a data collection company and have access to a few pins at banks
that don't charge for the "Direct" reporting.  The Microsoft Money Web page
has a few tools for seting up servers.  That is helping a little bit.  The
problem I seem to be encountering is that the server isn't returning any OFX
errors to me only http errors.  All it returns is a Error 400  "Application
Error".  If I miss-form my RQ messages I get a 500 Error.  My understandign
was that by the Specs it should tell what the error was.  I think some of
the servers were built to be compatable with MS, and Quicken, but not the
OFX specs.

I can't pass out the pins I have but in the interest of shared interests I
may be able to test something you have done.

Oh, and I know where you can get a list of servers, but I couldn't assure
you that the list isn't MS property.

- Josh Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benoit Grégoire" <[email protected]>
To: "Ron Tower" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: [Libofx-devel] Re: OFX Test Server


On April 29, 2003 03:21 pm, you wrote:
> Benoit,
>
> I saw the on the GnuCash site that you are releasing libofx 0.6.4 .
>
> I am working on an information aggregator, and one of the things I want to
> include is access to account balances to compare against thresholds. Not a
> complete package, just accessing the account balances. OFX seemed like a
> good way.
>
> Some issues I have are access to a test server, getting information from
> banks on URLs to their OFX servers, etc.
>
> How did you solve these issues?

We didn't.  Most banks where we tried to get the information have either
bumped whoever asked from departement to departement or flatly refused to
provide OFX information.  This is why libofx does not yet have native
bi-directional support (what Quicken calls Direct connect), and we focussed
on response interpretation (what Quicken calls Web connect).  Quicken uses a
central server to provide ofx server adresses at runtime.

Since my bank only support Web Connect and I don't have access to a test
server, I haven't had much incentive to speed up work on direct connect.

> Does libofx integrate well with Java?

I don't know, I never heard of anybody using it from java.  It has a C-style
interface directly usable from C/C++.  However, it currently uses static
callbacks, which may or may not be a ploblem.  The next major revision is
scheduled to have "standard" callback registration and a query interface (as
well as support for more file formats and export support).

--
---
Benoit Grégoire
http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/


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