Re: cust404 using ofxconnect

The website that you're referring to is that of Jeremy Jongsma.  You can
also find the data that Jeremy has packaged there posted in the OFX Blog:
http://ofxblog.wordpress.com/.  It uses ver = 6, though.  From what I
understand, the OFX Blog is soon to update for ver = 9.

Lance
http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance

On Jan 15, 2008 9:11 AM, Perry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> (Top posting to be consistent -- I know that really upsets some folks.)
>
> This may help a tiny bit.  It may not be new news.
> I was going to ask "How do I get the URL's" but then I remembered this
> script that I played with a while back:
>
> getfidata.sh.gz <http://www.jongsma.org/gc/bankinfo/getfidata.sh.gz>
>
> The web site is here: http://www.jongsma.org/gc.  It has a few pointers to
> things that might be useful.
>
> So I downloaded the script and ran it.  But, all the Provider URL's are
> the stupid cust404 paths.
>
> So, I took the idea below and reversed it.  Starting with the script
> above, replace 2006 with 2007 in the URLs and also replace VER=6 to VER=9
>  (A wild shot in the dark)
>
> On the two files I checked, the URL is valid (well, its not the bogus
> cust404 URL).
>
> I don't know exactly what this means as far as libofx but as far as the
> community, at least there is one way (for now) to get the URLs
>
> HTH,
> Perry Smith ( [email protected] )
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>
> On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:30 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I've struggle with the same problem but I got it working by using the
> --url option to specify the bank's ofx server directly.
>
> Someone described the 404.htm problem on the kmymoney list.
> Thomas, the lead developer, figured out some problem with the msn/provider
> differences which he fixed by changing  a parameter (VER=9 to 6) in the
> code.
> I followed that fix through and applied it to the ofx code, but it did not
>
> work, aka still getting the 404 page from msn. (note that Thomas' fix did
> resolve the issue in kmymoney).
>
> This experimentation was done about 2 weeks ago.
>
> rg
>
> On Sunday 13 January 2008 17:10, Perry Smith wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I searched and can not find any hits.
>
>
> I have libofx 0.9 on a Mac 10.5.  I installed it myself.  I have libxml
>
> ++ version 1.0.5.  I could not tell which version to use.
>
>
> I can get ofxconnect to get me the list of banks (-b) and the FID (-f)
>
> and the services it does (-v) but when I try to get the accounts with -
>
> a I get back:
>
>
> ofxconnect -a --fipid=7392 --user=pXXXXXXn --pass=oXXXXXXy accounts.ofx
>
> file accounts.ofx
>
> fipid 7392
>
> contacting partner server...
>
> fid 6812
>
> org HAN
>
> url http://moneycentral.msn.com/cust404.htm
>
> user pXXXXXXn
>
> pass oXXXXXXy
>
>
> The command above is with Bank Of America (not CA, ...).  I also tried
>
> other BoA FID's.  And I have an account with Chase that I tried.
>
> Chase use to be Bank One so I tried that too.  I always get back
>
> (rougly speaking) the above reply.  And, accounts.ofx is actually an
>
> html page for a page not found.  Both of these accounts I can use via
>
> their on line banking and the chase account I can use via Quicken.
>
> So, I'm pretty sure the account and passwords are correct.
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or how to debug this.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Perry Smith
>
>
>
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