New User Trouble With Transaction Downloading

[David Reiser]

> On May 2, 2016, at 8:01 PM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm working on migrating from Quicken on Win7 to gnucash on Kubuntu and
> finally have the gc accounts organized and all the "crimes" I committed in
> Quicken corrected, so now I'm trying to get transaction downloading to work.
> 
> Perhaps I picked a hard one to start, but I have to start somewhere...
> 
> I used the AqBanking Setup Wizard in gc to pull down the accounts from
> Edward Jones.  This verified that I had my password correct and confirmed
> that I could download my account numbers.
> 
> I found ofx-ba.py on the web (at
> stuffbillhasdone.blogspot.com/search/label/ofx-ba.py) and adapted it to
> work with my Edward Jones account using these parameters:
> 
> FID:   "823"
> ORG: "Edward Jones"
> URL:  "https://ofx.edwardjones.com"
> 
> Sadly, all I get using ofx-ba.py are error messages reporting "The
> requested URL was rejected.", etc.
> 
> I have compared a log of the AqBanking transaction request for accounts
> with a log of the ofx-ba.py version and do not see anything amiss, unless
> the fact that the one that works specifies <CLTCOOKIE>1 and the other
> specifies <CLTCOOKIE>4 is important.
> 
> The only other possibility I can come up with is that the ofx-ba.py call to
> urllib2.urlopen(request) is failing to send the transaction via https://
> and sending it unencrypted, but I don't know how to test for this or how to
> fix it.
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> --
> Craig.

If you still have access to Quicken, I’d recommend connecting to Edward Jones inside Quicken, then looking at the Quicken ofx log to make sure the ofx web address or other parameters haven’t changed since the ofx-ba.py collection was compiled.

Dave
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Dave Reiser
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