From: Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fedex command
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:23:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F150A48-D11B-4BA5-B031-F0D4CD9401E4@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23973646.167135.1338481889784.JavaMail.root@vms170035>
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> The published APIs didn't seem to lend themselves to a
> simple screen-scrape.
Well, they're mostly XML/SOAP, which is a pain, but they're not too rough as
such things go. Certainly they change a lot less than the web pages do, so
even if you're just using exactly the same techniques on what's returned it
should be an improvement from a reliability perspective. UPS's seem a bit
better than FedEx's (I don't recall looking at USPSs). FedEx has a "web
integration" thing which might be easier to use here, but I don't know details.
If you don't want to do that, I think the only other option is another round of
updating the HTML scraping that's there now.
Anthony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-31 16:31 V. M. (Mark) Haas
2012-05-31 18:23 ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2012-05-31 20:55 ` steve
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2012-05-31 14:24 V. M. (Mark) Haas
2012-05-31 14:38 ` Anthony Sorace
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