Hey all -
I've been off the list for awhile and just got back on - forgive me if this has been said before -
I've read a couple places that you aren't sure where to get the information necessary to support statement downloads into GnuCash - most notably the actual bank URLs. It turns out it's actually pretty easy to obtain a complete list of banks, capabilities and their URLs from Microsoft Money.
Here's what I've found so far -
In the $MONEY_HOME/System folder, there is a file called "fipartnr.ini". This file contains a list of banks (1248, to be exact), a summary of their online capabilities, and a URL to an .MNN file on the Microsoft web servers.
Each .MNN file is actually a .CAB. Inside the CAB are two relevant files: bank.ini and provider.ini. bank.ini contains all of the contact information; provider.ini provides the URL to the bank's OFX server and a detailed list of its capabilities.
After digging around for a bit, I also found some developer tools for Money partners that should help me figure out some ambiguous fields in the ini files.
I didn't see anything about parameters to pass to the URL (user/password, etc); I'm assuming that an OFX request is simply some sort of OFX request document that is POSTed via SSL to that URL (maybe Benoit has some insight here)?
I'm total crap as far as programming in C, but if someone's not already working on this, I can write a perl script that will parse "fipartnrs.ini", retrieve all the .MMN files, analyze them and create a standardized set of XML documents detailing each bank's capabilities.
-j
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