New OFX direct connect problem (BOA)

Fri Sep 9 22:40:30 UTC 2016

On 2016.09.09 12:39, Jack wrote:
> On 2016.09.09 10:24, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
>> On Thursday 08 September 2016 21:00:19 Jack wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been downloading transactions for my Bank of America credit  
>>> card for months without problems, until a week or two ago, when I  
>>> started getting "The file or folder eftx.bankofamerica.com does not  
>>> exist."
> 
> I'd like to know exactly where this error comes from, and which file  
> or folder it can't find (or perhaps there is a permission problem?
>> 
>> I just checked that data and get
>> 
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> eftx.bankofamerica.com. 3600    IN      CNAME   eftx.ecglb.bac.com.
>> eftx.ecglb.bac.com.     30      IN      A       171.161.207.77
> yes, I see the same.
>> 
>> which looks OK to me. Something is also responding there and says:
>> 
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
>> <html><head>
>> <title>501 Method Not Implemented</title>
>> </head><body>
>> <h1>Method Not Implemented</h1>
>> <p>help to / not supported.<br />
>> </p>
>> </body></html>
>> 
>> in case I send some garbage.
>> 
>> The output of
>> https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=eftx.bankofamerica.com  
>> also
>> looks OK to me.
>> 
>> Can you turn on logging using the ~/ofxlog.txt feature?
> Sorry, I did and forgot to mention - no response:
> 
> ....
> </OFX>
> response:
> 
> Completed
> 
> so it doesn't look like anything is coming back.  Doing a traceroute  
> shows inconsistent results, but never a reply from the final host,  
> although it could be configured to not respond to pings.
> 
>> Doesn't mapping the account require to login to the bank? So in case  
>> you can do that, the transmission seems to be working. I am also  
>> wondering, which error is shown during 'Show error message'.
> No error from mapping the account, which I assume does go to the same  
> server.  There is just this single popup with the error, but no  
> button other than OK.
>> 
>> Strange.
> Yes - that's why I was wondering if anyone else has seen this, or if  
> anyone else can confirm they are successfully getting BOA credit card  
> transactions through ofx direct download.
> 
>> >  On the console, I see
>> >
>> > OfxImporterPlugin::updateAccount
>> > creating job
>> > Job finished
>> > Closing tempfile
>> > Tempfile closed
>> > Show error message
>> > Finishing slotOfxFinished
>> >
>>> which seems to show no response from the bank.  However, I have  
>>> unmapped and successfully remapped the account (KMM OFX).  I have  
>>> not yet tried wireshark to see if any packets are returning.
>> >
>>> Does this ring any bells for anyone?  I've also posted at ofxhome,  
>>> and I suppose I'll have to break down and call BOA - they won't  
>>> take any help calls by email except for statement requests....
>> >
Well, wireshark shows the entire transaction in 24 packets.  One of  
them says "Client Hello[Malformed Packet].  Googling leaves me unclear  
if this  might be a wireshark bug (shedding no light on my OFX issue)  
or if there really is something going on such as some sort of SSL level  
mismatch, perhaps due to a recent change at BOA.  (I don't think I've  
updated any SSL or such software lately, but I'll have to dig.)

Jack