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RE: Formatting an XML request and receiving the XML response
Hi Mike,
Thanks very much for this, it's a great help to me.
Mike, remembering that I'm a complete novice at this - what would you
recommend to correct the encoding issues you pointed out?
I really appreciate this - without the help I've been getting, it
would take me much longer to get up to speed with this.
I will likely have more questions for either of you or both, if that's
ok...
Thanks!
Rich
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> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 16:34:04 -0500
> From: sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Formatting an XML request and receiving the XML
response
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> You're making two mistakes in your encoding:
>
> a) You aren't encoding the data to make it a valid XML document. As
> soon as you get an address with a < or & symbol, your XML document
will
> be invalid.
>
> b) You aren't using the URL encoder properly. You've created an
> encoder, but you didn't ask it to encode anything. The URL itself
> contains all of the data, but if there's any characters that are
invalid
> in a URL (that includes blanks, &, =, /, etc) the HTTP protocol is
going
> to choke on it.
>
>
>
> Mike Krebs wrote:
> > Rich, I played with this app a while back (USPS address
verification). Here was my test program. I didn't parse the result but
look at EXAMPLE15 for how to handle that part.
> >
> > Mike Krebs
> >
> >
> > H DFTACTGRP(*NO) ACTGRP(*NEW) BNDDIR('LIBHTTP/HTTPAPI')
> >
> > D/copy libhttp/qrpglesrc,httpapi_h
> >
> > D rc s 10I 0
> > D msg s 52A
> >
> > d USPSUserID s 12a inz('your user id')
> > d address1 s 38a inz(*blanks)
> > d address2 s 38a inz('6406 Ivy Lane')
> > d city s 15a inz('Greenbelt')
> > d state s 2a inz('MD')
> > d zip5 s 5a inz(*blanks)
> > d zip4 s 4a inz(*blanks)
> >
> > d Enc s like(HTTP_URL_ENCODER)
> > d url s 32767a varying
> > d urlValues s 32767a varying
> >
> > C* retrieve the ILE RPG/400 refernece manual from IBM:
> >
> > c eval urlValues =
> > c 'ShippingAPItest.dll?API=Verify'+
> > c 'ShippingAPItest.dll?API=Verify'+
> > c '&XML=<AddressValidateRequest '+
> > c 'USERID="' + %trim(USPSUserID) + '">'
> > c '<Address ID="0">'+
> > c '<Address1>' + %trim(Address1) +
> > c '</Address1>' +
> > c '<Address2>' + %trim(Address2) +
> > c '</Address2>' +
> > c '<City>' + %trim(City) +
> > c '</City>' +
> > c '<State>' + %trim(State) +
> > c '</State>' +
> > c '<Zip5>' + %trim(Zip5) +
> > c '</Zip5>' +
> > c '<Zip4>' + %trim(Zip4) +
> > c '</Zip4>' +
> > c '</Address></AddressValidateRequest>'
> > c eval url =
> > c 'http://testing.shippingapis.com/'
> >
> > c eval Enc = http_url_encoder_new()
> > c eval rc = http_url_get(url +
> > c http_url_encoder_getstr(Enc):
> > c '/tmp/address_valid.txt')
> > c if rc <> 1
> > c eval msg = http_error
> > c dsply msg
> > c endif
> >
> > c callp http_url_encoder_free(Enc)
> >
> > c eval *inlr = *on
> > ****************** End of data *****
> >
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