RE: need help with HTTPAPI, should be easy for you pros!

[Mike Krebs <mkrebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave, 

Search the archives for USPS. Here is a post regarding USPS address verification.

http://www.scottklement.com/archives/ftpapi/200906/msg00110.html

The program is short and sweet and might work for you. Last time I looked at it, USPS has lots of restrictions in their usage agreement. Be sure to read it before you get too far into this.

Mike Krebs


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> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:46 PM
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> Subject: need help with HTTPAPI, should be easy for you pros!
> 
> 
> 
> I work for a distribution company.
> We aren't huge, and have one "official" iSeries developer. He has been
> with
> the company for I believe his entire career, and moving on to new
> things
> isn't always easy.
> The owner, handles PC based application work.
> I tend to fall in the middle, having a wide variety of experience over
> the
> years.
> We need to verify Addresses for shipping.
> The USPS offers a service we may be able to use which requires using a
> straight forward xml string with return strings.
> 
> We are on a project which like all of them, has to be done last week.
> I
> managed to get a brief reprieve from having this done with a pc based
> SOFTWARE solution (not a service solution, which makes more sense).  I
> and
> my iSeries developer believe to have this function remain upon the
> iSeries
> where we do the other processing is ideal, and beneficial.
> 
> I found the HTTPAPI and have great hopes we can make this work. I have
> not,
> however written much RPG related code in over 10 years and am having
> some
> difficulty intepreting. I don't believe my co-worker has delved much
> into
> the ILE format, which may be causing some confusion for him.
> 
> Is it possible, to have a simple solution which we can provide a server
> connection, pass the string, and put out return data that we could call
> and
> get a return value
> Something like:
> call pgm parms(server string)
> (Sorry, I've forgot how to define a return variable  :(  but that would
> be
> in there too.
> 
> I hope you can help soon, as I have a VERY small window to keeping this
> on
> an iSeries, and as a web service.
> 
> Thank you.
> davew@xxxxxxxxxx
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