ofxconnect attempts to connect to invalid hard-coded URL

Bug #1168715 reported by Ccurtis0
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LibOFX
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Bug Description

When running 'ofxconnect' for the first time (eg: 'ofxconnect -b' to get a list of all known OFX banks), ofxconnect attempts to retrieve an XML file from money.msn.com by POSTing some magic values to /money/2005/mnynet/service/ols/filist.aspx?SKU=3&VER=6

This returns an 'Object Moved' page that doesn't appear to work when pasting directly into a browser.

Searching online, this appears to be a common technique:

http://jongsma.org/svn/ofx-banks/trunk/getfidata.sh

https://github.com/aasmith/bankjob/blob/master/scripts/getfidata.sh

But neither of those work either. I can't find the incantation required to make MSN search return a proper URL.

I would suggest that a default set of files (it retrieves several, all of which fail) be shipped with the package (something is better than nothing?) or perhaps link to the data at http://www.ofxhome.com/ somehow.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ofx 1:0.9.4-2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-28.47-generic 3.5.7.9
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 13 13:27:27 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libofx
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-29 (104 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Ccurtis0 (ccurtis0) wrote :
Changed in libofx:
status: Unknown → New
Dylan Aïssi (daissi)
Changed in libofx (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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