Safari and QIF or QFX file type

pedz · #1 June 23rd, 2004, 08:08 PM

This may be a Bank One problem but I don't think so.

When I got to Bank One and try to download my transactions using Safari (1.2.2 on 10.3.4), the download window pops open and the transfer "times out" extremely quickly and zero bytes get transferred. IE handles the whole thing nicely and even pushs the file over to Quicken automatically.

So I went looking for the usual place where you can specify what to do with each file extension and I can't find any place to set that up.

I'd be happy writing a perl script to do this but all this is with https and not http and I do not know if there are perl packages that understand https (maybe its transparent to perl).

Any suggestions?

Oh... the reason I don't want to use IE is because it is not scriptable (the version I have) but Safari is. Unfortunately, neither Quicken nor the new Quickbooks 6 for Mac are scriptable either. But if I could get the transactions as a file on my desktop that would be a big step.

Also, I guess I should explain why I'm doing this. Quickbooks on the Mac does not do automatic electronic download like Quicken does or Quickbooks on the PC does. It does import IIF files so I'm hoping I can come up with a way to suck the data over as a QIF file, convert it to an IIF file, and then manually import it into QuickBooks.

Someday I may switch to GNU Cash but I can't move my existing data over from Quickbooks.

ElDiabloConCaca · #2 June 23rd, 2004, 10:21 PM

Hmmm... you wouldn't, by chance, have "Block pop-up windows" active, would you? Supposedly, Safari is working great with a lot of bank sites after some initial incompatibility. Also, check to make sure you've got JavaScript enabled. A lot of form activity, such as that found on banking sites, depends heavily on JavaScript.

bobw · #3 June 24th, 2004, 09:40 AM

You might want to give SafariNoTimeOut a try;

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19173

And with More Internet you can specify apps to be associated with any file;
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16066

pedz · #4 June 24th, 2004, 06:56 PM

I bet its the block pop-ups. I didn't think about that because the download starts. Thanks for your help.

pedz · #5 June 25th, 2004, 05:03 PM

It is not the "block pop-ups" option. I tried it both ways. I'll try the other suggestions.

pedz · #6 June 25th, 2004, 07:39 PM

Just to let other people know what I found: this appears to be a Bank One problem. Safari works fine with American Express. I tried the no time out version but it is changing a different timeout problem. So... at this point, something with Bank One and Safari does not work. IE and Bank One works; AmEx and Safari works.

Thanks for your help