Working With Amazon

[Ray Worrell <rworrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

   I'm reeling from information overload, and I was wondering if there was
   anyone out there that can help me out.� Thanks in advance for any
   counsel, advice, or God-willing, code snippets!
   �   I'm trying to put together a simple RPG program to retrieve item
   information from Amazon.� I would love to check a set of titles to see
   their availability and to see if there are any problems with Amazon
   selling them.�   �   I was thinking I could have an RPG program use HTTPAPI, issue the web
   request, and parse the XML for the magic terms; however, my eyes glaze
   over when I read things like SHA-256 encryption.
   �   So, before going down the path of inventing this wheel myself, I
   thought I would check-in with this group to see if anyone has done
   something like this before.
   �   Essentially, I need to use a secret key supplied by Amazon to encrypt
   the entire request in the form of a signature and then use that
   signature when issuing the request with Amazon.� They have
   instructions in their documentation, but it's a fair amount of work, so
   I guess I was hoping to take the lazy way out.
   �   Has anyone done anything with Amazon from the 400 that they would be
   willing to share?
   �   Thanks very much.
   �   Ray.

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