Re: UPS shipping rates with Net.Data

["Haas, Matt (CL Tech Sv)" <matt.haas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem is Net.Data can't do that. You'll need to come up with a program that can and have Net.Data call it.

I took a look at the cURL page and if you install the SSH stuff for PASE, you'll get zlib and OpenSSL and then you can probably run this in PASE using one of the AIX version.

Matt

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The parser is not really that important, since I have a number of ways to do
that.  What I am looking for is the mechanism to send/receive XML from my
HTML/Net.data code.   This CURL stuff does that, but seems to run on every
OS known to man except OS/400.


Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469
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Larry,

Take a look at Scott Klement's HTTP API service program. It has examples of
consuming web services. It also comes with an XML parser.

Matt

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Larry Kleinman [larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:21 PM
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Subject: [WEB400] UPS shipping rates with Net.Data

I have an entire e-commerce website just about built using Net.Data and a
lot of JavaScript.  All that is left to do is connect to UPS on-line tools
to get shipping rates (based on ship-to zip, shipment method, size/weight of
package, etc.).  The problem is that the UPS tools are accessed via XML.  I
understand the concept of XML, but I don;t know how build, parse, or
send/receive an XML document.  I found a complete function to do this
written in PHP, and I know enough PHP to replicate this in Net.Data.
However, the PHP code makes use of something called cURL to parse the XML,
and it looks like you can only run cURL in LINUX, Windows, and some other
stuff.  I suspect it will not work on the System i Apache server.

I am not locked into the PHP solution.   In fact, I'm willing to try
anything, although I'm not enthusiastic about learning java, C, and some
other awful solutions that I've found on the internet..  Anybody have some
ideas?


Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469
203-255-4100