aqbanking info
Martin Preuss
martin at aqbanking.de
Mon Jan 24 11:55:55 EST 2011
Hi,
On Montag 24 Januar 2011, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> As Phil Frost pointed out, there are ofx info sites in addition to the
> wiki page that you will find with google, but they all suffer from the
> same problems. Yet someone must know about all these fields because
> someone designed these forms (the ones that you fill out during
> aqbanking/ofx setup). Is there an aqbanking group out there somewhere,
> perhaps, that might provide this information?
[...]
We have a mailing list for AqBanking issues (see
"http://lists.aqbanking.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aqbanking-user").
Most documentation for AqBanking is in German because most of the really open
banking protocols only work in Germany (HBCI, FinTS, EBICS, the latter is also
used in France).
The OFX DirectConnect protocol OTOH has open specs, but the US banks are
rather obstructive with this protocol (e.g. you need to tell them you are
using Quicken, otherwise most banks won't help you at all, and in addition to
that they don't publish the information needed for non-Quicken applications to
setup the banking stuff etc.).
However, for the not-so-new-anymore AqBanking5 I created special setup dialogs
for OFX DirectConnect (see
"http://www2.aquamaniac.de/sites/aqbanking/manual5/setup_ofx_user.php") and we
now use OFXHome to retrieve server information to make things easier for OFX
users.
To summarize: I am extremely frustrated with how the US banks (together with
Intuit) treat the OFX specs and the information needed for Open Source
applications to setup OFX DC. The German examples proof rather nicely that
providing setup information together with open protocols does not compromise
the security of online banking... That's why I was more than once
contemplating the removal of OFX DirectConnect support from AqBanking...
Anyway, AqBanking5 has the best support for OFX DC of all versions of
AqBanking. Hopefully, GnuCash can successfully switch to that new generation
at some point to benefit from those improvements.
Regards
Martin
--
"Things are only impossible until they're not"
Martin Preuss - http://www2.aquamaniac.de/
AqBanking - http://www.aqbanking.de/
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