Re: UPS shipping rates with Net.Data

[Larry Kleinman <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've downloaded and installed the HTTPAPI tool but am running into problems
trying to use it.  I decided to try EXAMPLE16 (Example of XML Parsing UPS
Package Tracking) since it is similar to what I am trying to do (I'm trying
to use a different UPS online tool).  When I run it, I get the screen asking
for a tracking number, I enter some data, then the program ends.  The job
log contains the following:
  (GSKit) Handle is not valid.
Is this in any way related to SSL?  The README says that I need to set up a
*SYSTEM certificate.  But it also says that I don't need to set up
certificates unless my business partner needs me to do so, and says that UPS
does not need one.   I did not do the *SYSTEM certificate.

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


                                                                       
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Hello,

> 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.

The HTTPAPI tool does exactly that -- it sends/receives data using the
HTTP protocol.   (It *also* has an XML parser, but that's not it's
primary purpose, and you don't have to use it if you don't want to.)

So HTTPAPI is a tool for sending bytes (it doesn't matter what format
they're in) over a network using the HTTP protocol.  It's aimed at RPG
(not Net.Data) but I expect you can call RPG from Net.Data, correct?

If you don't like that -- Brad Stone also has a similar tool called
GETURI.  Also designed for RPG/CL.

If you really have your heart set on cURL, it's available for i5/OS (I
have it installed!), but you have to run it in PASE.  That would be a
non-issue from PHP (which also runs in PASE), though I don't know enough
about Net.Data to know if it can invoke PASE software.   But if you
really want to use cURL and Net.Data can't invoke QShell or PASE, then
you could always write a CL wrapper around it, and invoke that.

Does that help?
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