Discover drops support for OFX

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Mark:

On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:20:34 -0800, Mark Robinson <mark at mrobinson.ca> wrote:
> So I got this email from Discover today.
>
> "Thank you for your inquiry regarding issue you are experiencing when
> downloading. I wish to express my sincere apologies for any
> inconvenience you may have experienced with your Discover account. I
> am happy to assist you today!
>
> I can tell you that Discover no longer supports OFX downloads, some
> money management programs may need to update their system to be able
> to continue downloading the transactions. This includes direct
> download from within a program and downloads from the website. Please
> contact your software?s support to see if they have a QFX download
> option.
>
> I appreciate your business and the opportunity to be of service. Thank
> you for choosing to use Discover Card. "
>
> Ugh.

I too have a Discover credit card <https://www.discover.com/>. I was 
able to download transactions on 4. December 2016, but I can't now. 
Today, I called Discover card customer support, who transferred me to 
web support. The person there told me that Discover card has definitely 
not stopped support for OFX transaction delivery, and that it's still 
supposed to work for current Quicken. He also lacked any access to 
technical documentation to explain what variety of OFX interaction 
Discover supports.

So, maybe there is hope.

I'm chasing down some forum discussions which say that other bookkeeping 
programs have made OFX with Discover work, but it requires a very 
particular set of HTTP headers in a very particular order.

  * <http://www.ofxhome.com/ofxforum/viewtopic.php?id=47793>
  * <http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/online-banking/4953-discover-downloads-stopped-working/page/5#comment_42109347>
  * <http://pocketsense.blogspot.ca/2017/01/comments.html?showComment=1488858632663#c6433672933959876216>

The GnuCash wiki has instructions on making a log of GnuCash's OFX 
transaction 
<http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2#Enabling_the_OFX_Log>. 
I'm going to try that next, and see if I can see anything interesting.

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