ofx directconnect and HBCI test server (Re: Could I be a Google Summer of Code Mentee for gnucash?)

[John Ralls]

On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:

> Dear John,
> 
> just a question of clarification regarding the OFX directconnect online banking: Is it possible to send the "Transfer Money" job to the bank using OFX DirectConnect, similar to HBCI? Or does OFX DirectConnect offer only balance and statement download?
> 
> In the former case, Elise could work on online banking integration using an actual bank account of her own with OFX DirectConnect, whereas in the latter case, she could work solely with the HBCI test server which is kind of boring.
> 
> (By the way, you could use the HBCI test server yourself for testing the aqbanking issues on Mac, see http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/hbci/HACKING-HBCITEST.txt?rev=19936 . If the test account needs to be reset or something similar, do not hesitate to contact the test server maintainer under <hbci4java at kapott.org> as he's very cooperative in helping to set up a test account for us.)
> 

Christian,

I've no idea; I've never tried. I always use the payee's website to "pull" the payment.

Thanks for the info on the hbci test site. That will be useful.

Regards,
John Ralls