Re: cust404 using ofxconnect

This patch (attached) is working for me.

(You need to change the 2005 to 2007 as well as VER from 6 to 9.)

HTH
Perry


On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:14 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I need to correct my statement about the "VER" "fix" -- it was  
> changed from
> VER=6 to VER=9 in kmymoney. This change was in one file only in  
> kmymoney,
> and after some 'grep'-ing in libofx it looked like it was in one  
> file as well,
> so changed it, but did not get results as in kmymoney.
>
> How to get the ofx server url ? There are many tricks, including the  
> ones you
> mentioned. The last one I used looked the "cleanest":
>
> curl "http://moneycentral.msn.com/money/2005/mnynet/service/olsvcupd/OnlSvcBrandInfo.aspx?MSNGUID=&GUID= 
> %1&SKU=3&VER=9"
>
> where "%1" must be replaced with your fipid
>
> this will return all the relevant info (including the url) of that  
> provider.
> (I got that link form the libofx code while dealing with the VER  
> changes)
>
> rg
>
>
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 06:16, Lance Robinson wrote:
>> 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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