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I know nothing about that particular bank, but (I'm in the US) an increasing list of banks are simply discontinuing the ability to do OFX direct connect.  You either need to use WebConnect (download the OFX file from their website) or use an aggregator, which may or may not be acceptable to you.
In your case, when you say "is not responding" do you mean some error, or absolutely no response to the request?  Have you called the bank and asked if they have changed anything?  They may not be able (or willing) to give you any real information, but the usually know that "something" has changed, and will probably refer you to Intuit.

As of some time in late 2022 Chase completely stopped responding to any direct connect requests.  (Same as Bank of Americs)  Is it working for anyone at all, or should Chase just be dropped from the Directory, or at least noted to not support direct connect any more.

Well, days/weeks after my previous post, my BOA accounts started working again for OFX Direct Connect downloads.  They had no clue what might have changed.  Anyway - as of today, any attempt gets me "Could not connect to host eftx.bankofamerica.com: Connection refused." so maybe they finally shut down the servers like Chase did.

New problem as of past few days.  For both by checking and credit card account, I get

There has been an error with your session. Please call your Customer Service Representative with reference number 20130.  (that for CC, for checking the number is 20114.)

BOA Customer Support could only find that OFX Direct Connect (based on best understanding of whatever exact words she was reading from her source) was going to be discontinued in October, and might already have been discontinued in some cases.  She had no answer why I hadn't received any notice of this change.  She did provide me an 800 number for some other group who supposedly could help, but when I called (they were not available on Sunday) it turned out to be Intuit, so I didn't bother, as I'm quite sure they will just say "unsupported software."  (I'm using KMyMoney.)

I'm also now waiting for a return message from my BOA contact, but I'm not very hopeful, as that route has not been very helpful with technical issues in the past.

Are you using a CLIENTUUID?  Have you tried identifying as a different client or different year?  (I wouldn't think it should matter, but little with this stuff ends up making much sense.)

Go figure.  I changed the appid from Quicken 2016 to MS-Money 2007, and it works.  It makes no sense to me, but it seems reasonably par for the course.

Sorry it's a year later, but in the US, almost all credit card issuers will let you download OFX files (although some call them QFX.)  I'm pretty sure that many if not most European banks also do that.  You might want to check with the mailing list or forum support for some financial application (either Free/Open Source or commercial) which uses OFX, as there should probably be discussions about which banks are friendly or not towards OFX.

Jack

mohsen.vafa:  I think you need to be more clear about exactly what you are trying, as your posts have only partial information.  The process is that you need to send an ofx request which includes the clientuuid.  You will get a rejection, but the error SHOULD say something about logging on to the web site.  Then you need to use a browser to log in to your account, and it should have you confirm that you tried to set up the direct connect access.  (It has been so long since I did it, I have forgotten the exact terminology they use.)  Once that is complete, than you need to resubmit the original ofx request, and it should succeed. 

Also - in your link, the clientuuid starts with xxxx.  Was that just changing it before posting?  That's OK, but if that's what youactually submitted, I don't think it will work, as that field is hex.

Yes, you need to make the first OFX connection with the CLIENTUID, and then log into the web site using a normal browser, then retry the OFX connection.  It's been so long since I've done it, I've forgotten whether simply logging on is enough, or if they prompt you to confirm something about having set up the direct data download, or just notify you about it.  There is a time limit between each of those connections, or you have to start again.  From earlier posts in this thread, that appears to be ten minutes.

Are you certain that message alone is valid?  Some of the posts I have found suggeste 400 is invalid syntax (I'm confused between that the the too long values issue) but without a specific request of some sort, it might be an invalid request.  Any idea what the request is to provide a list of valid accounts to map?  That might be the simplest to implement.

libofx uses a non-none newfileuid, but I doubt that is the cause of the problem.  What I do find odd is that the posts I find about error 400 say it is a length limit of some field.  Even though vfdhgt had success including hyphens, try removing them from the CLIENTUID, just to see if it makes a difference.

Also - just to be sure, is that the entire message, or is there more?  From the little OFX I know, that doesn't seem to be actually requesting anything from the bank.  (I may well be wrong here.)

Well, I added a CLIENTUID, and got a different error (2000?) but the website made me go through the log in again and confirm Quicken access, then reconnect with Quicken within 10 minutes.  Now it works again (credit card only, I don't have other BOA accounts.)  This pattern is the same we went through with Chase last year, so it seems that CLIENTUID is now required.  I didn't do the programming myself, but from what I remember, the changes aren't really that involved.