[GNC] GnuCash 3.6 online banking with Chase, NEWFILEUID bug

[David Reiser]

I’ve been using gnucash/aqbanking for several years to retrieve credit card transactions from Chase. I just checked my ofx.log file, and sending the NEWFILEUID with the .000 on the end does not affect my downloads.
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com





> On Sep 23, 2019, at 10:47 PM, Eric Haszlakiewicz <hawicz+gnucash at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to figure out why I'm not able to get GnuCash to connect
> to Chase's online banking, and I think I've tracked down the difference
> between a working request and the failing ones.
> 
> Following
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48157580/how-do-i-programmatically-download-my-bank-transactions-from-chase-without-using
> and
> the script it links to (
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agtsai-i/ofx/master/ofx-ba-tfb.py), I was
> able to successfully fetch an account list.
> Comparing that to GnuCash's ofx.log, there are a handful of differences,
> but the one that seems to be causing the problem is the NEWFILEUID header.
> GnuCash sends a header that looks like:
> NEWFILEUID:20190923223547.000
> 
> While that python script sends a uuid, e.g.:
> NEWFILEUID:83339694c9e8454391bb91ea0deb8839
> 
> Chase does not like the GnuCash value, but merely dropping the ".000" off
> the end seems to be enough to get things working.  So, I have a couple of
> questions:
> * Has this been fixed in a newer version of GnuCash?  I'm using GnuCash 3.6
> because 3.7 just crashes (see my other email "GnuCash 3.7 crash in online
> banking").
> * Is there an easy way to tweak was GnuCash sends without needing a new
> release?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
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