OFX Support

[Derek Atkins]

Who do we know that works for any big banks, so we can get someone
on the inside to help us get our foot in the door?

-derek

linas@linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:07:02PM -0500, Benoit Gr?goire wrote:
> > > 
> > > As I said in my last message, that information is queried at runtime by 
> > > Quicken from a central Intuit server.  So yes, Intuit and Microsoft probably 
> > > receive an update everytime a bank moves their server.
> 
> At this point, do we know of the location of *any* OFX servers?
> 
> Years ago, I had the url for one, for one of the wall-street firms
> (forget which).  It should still be in the pre-historic experimental
> ofx dir in gnucash cvs. 
> 
> I got the impression that banks were quite secretive and cagey about
> it all; I talked to the VP technology at Compass Bank, and we had
> a very long, very pleasent conversation, but I still wasn't told the
> URL.
> 
> At one point, I tried to sniff the protocol between quicken and
> intuit to see how they found the URL's, but was unsuccessful.
> (I could read parts of the transaction in plaintext, unencrypted,
> but not the part that mattered.)  
> 
> This is a barrier to entry for doing true live online transactions
> via OFX.  How are we going to get past this barrier?
> 
> --linas
> 
> 
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