OFX Direct Connect Setup Question

yetanother ereeder at mailup.net
Tue Feb 5 12:13:24 EST 2008


David,
Thanks!  I've attached the  http://www.nabble.com/file/p15293705/ofx.log
ofx.log  file [edited]

Any help would be appreciated.

Also, if you don't mind I'll put something in the OFX Direct Connect FAQ to
show how to set the environment variable and get the ofx.log.  It will
mention Windows systems as well (so others won't make the dumb mistake I did
&-()

David Reiser wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:45 PM, yetanother wrote:
> 
>>
>> I followed
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/ 
>> Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2 the
>> directions on the wiki  and the AqBanking Set-up Wizard for setting  
>> up a
>> connection and have a question.
>>
>> Question 1: Does every bank server support "Account List Download"?
>>
>> After setting up the basic information for a User that would connect  
>> to my
>> bank, I checked "Supports Account List Download" and tried to "Get
>> Accounts", which resulted in the following log:
>> 13:01:30 Resolving hostname "secure-keypointcu.com" ...
>> 13:01:30 IP address is 99.999.999.999
>> 13:01:30 Creating HTTPS connection
>> 13:01:30 Connecting...
>> 13:01:33 Sending request...
>> 13:01:33 Waiting for response...
>> 13:01:33 Parsing response...
>> 13:01:33 Disconnecting...
>> 13:01:33 Parsing response
>> 13:01:33 Finished. You may close this window.
>>
>> It appears that the connection was fine, just that no Account List was
>> provided.
>>
>> Question 2: Is there some problem I should be trying to fix at this  
>> point?
>>
>> Question 3: If not, and I need to manually set up Accounts is there  
>> any
>> documentation on this?  The wiki doesn't have it and my initial  
>> effort isn't
>> working.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> [I'm using GnuCash 2.2.3 on a Windows 2000 system.]
>> -- 
> 
> There may be a problem you're trying to solve, but it would take a  
> look at the ofx data stream to see. On a unix system, you would set  
> AQOFX_LOG_COMM=1 and then look at /tmp/ofx.log after one of your  
> attempts to see if there was an error reported.
> 
> I don't know how to either set the variable on windows or what /tmp  
> turns into in the windows environment.
> 
> Also, you probably don't want to leave the variable set, because the  
> data stream and the log will contain your username and password for  
> the account.
> 
> The reason I didn't write up any manual account setup for the wizard  
> is that there are a couple options that seem strange to me, and the  
> account list retrieval has generally worked for me. One thing that  
> might be not working is that some institutions don't pass complete  
> account numbers -- at least one credit card issuer I have uses  
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxyyyy where only the y's are numbers. If something you set  
> in the account list doesn't match what the bank sends, then you won't  
> get any data back.
> 
> Dave
> --
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> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> 
> 
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