On Mar 16, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Emmet Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi John, > > I just wanted to send you a follow-up note about the issue that I reported to > the gnucash-user list regarding GnuCash/AqBanking, OFX and Capital One. I > thought I'd share the information with you directly, rather than the entire > list, because no one else on the list seems to have the same issue and > because you might find it useful to share with the other developers. > > The connection errors described in my original email were resolved by setting > the OFX version to 1.0.3 and the ClientUID to > 6c88247e-ab53-46f4-b9c0-ecaee283570f, which was a default string for > ClientUID that I found in the configuration file of the PocketSense scripts > (found under https://sites.google.com/site/pocketsense/home/msmoneyfixp1). > > According to this blog post for PocketSense > (http://pocketsense.blogspot.com/2013/01/jan-2013-version-of-scripts-available.html) > the ClientUID should be set automatically by the client software. I > downloaded the PocketSense scripts with the intention of generating a > ClientUID for my connection to Capital One, but when I saw a default value > for the element in the scripts' configuration file ("sites.dat") I used the > default value in GnuCash and my transactions downloaded successfully. I did > not read the code to learn how the ClientUID is generated; at this point, I > don't really have the time to investigate how the client operates. > > If Capital One break things again, I might take a deeper dive at that time; > if the GnuCash/Aqbanking developers would like me to test something for them, > I'd be willing to help out. > > But, again, I want to thank you for your original response to my first > question and I hope that this information may be of some use to you. Emmet, Good detective work! That string is called a GUID and they're widely used, making one at account creation is no problem. I'll leave it to Martin and Christian (who know the online banking code much better than I do) to look at your references and see what needs to be done and where. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
