OFX Support

[Nigel Titley]

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 17:44, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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?

I have an ex-colleague who is network security manager for the Royal
Bank of Scotland. I'll give him a poke. At least it may give us some
leads.

> 
> -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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