On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 17:44, Derek Atkins wrote: > Who do we know that works for any big banks, so we can get someone > on the inside to help us get our foot in the door?
I have an ex-colleague who is network security manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland. I'll give him a poke. At least it may give us some leads. > > -derek > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > > > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:07:02PM -0500, Benoit Gr?goire wrote: > > > > > > > > As I said in my last message, that information is queried at runtime by > > > > Quicken from a central Intuit server. So yes, Intuit and Microsoft probably > > > > receive an update everytime a bank moves their server. > > > > At this point, do we know of the location of *any* OFX servers? > > > > Years ago, I had the url for one, for one of the wall-street firms > > (forget which). It should still be in the pre-historic experimental > > ofx dir in gnucash cvs. > > > > I got the impression that banks were quite secretive and cagey about > > it all; I talked to the VP technology at Compass Bank, and we had > > a very long, very pleasent conversation, but I still wasn't told the > > URL. > > > > At one point, I tried to sniff the protocol between quicken and > > intuit to see how they found the URL's, but was unsuccessful. > > (I could read parts of the transaction in plaintext, unencrypted, > > but not the part that mattered.) > > > > This is a barrier to entry for doing true live online transactions > > via OFX. How are we going to get past this barrier? > > > > --linas > > > > > > > > -- > > pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
