[GNC] USAA OFX Direct Connect stopped working

[john]

> On Dec 14, 2023, at 20:43, John Haiducek <jhaiduce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Downloading transactions from USAA accounts stopped working for me today.
> In the past I've been able to restore access by following the instructions
> at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings#USAA and
> getting an accessid from http://usaa.com/accessid or
> https://df3cx-services.1fsapi.com/casm/usaa/enroll. However, now both of
> those websites redirect to a page that returns the following in JSON:
> 
> {
> "error": "invalid_request",
> "error_description": "Validation error"
> }
> 
> Does anyone know a workaround for this? Is there an updated URL I can use?

I had the same problem yesterday. I worked around it by downloading a CSV of the transactions from the account and importing that instead.

It's possible that it's just a glitch that will get corrected in a few days. If not we'll need someone with Quicken and Wireshark to snarf the new secret handshake.

Regards,
John Ralls