RE: HTTPAPI examples

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Most of my examples also use other 3rd party code like CGIDEV2 and
> XMLSAX.  Would it be ok to include that in your examples?  I guess 100%
> of my usage is based on XML being the transport for the data so that is
> why I have CGIDEV2 in the mix - purely for templating purposes.

This is part of my problem; how can I present HTTPAPI without first
presenting other tools such as CGIDEV2 or an XML parser?  It seems like
this won't work.

>
> A good public web service to consume, that would also solve a business
> problem for people, would be some of UPS's public web services.  For
> instance, I have an app the retrieves the Time In Transit for a
> particular weight of a box going to and from particular zip codes etc.
>
> http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/bussol/offering/online_tools.html

I think that UPS is a very practical choice -- a lot of people could use
this sort of thing.

The problem is, it's not public.  You have to register with them, get a
developer key, etc.

One thing that I did think of is RSS feeds...  there are a lot of public
RSS feeds, maybe I could do sample programs that use those.  You still
have to parse XML, though, which makes it hard to do a beginner's sample
-- you have to first spend a few weeks learning XML parsing THEN you can
finally use HTTPAPI :)


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