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WEB SEND & USPS Shipping API

 
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ek1975
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:58 pm    Post subject: WEB SEND & USPS Shipping API Reply with quote
Hello, I am new to making CICS act as an HTTP client & I am not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

If I paste this in a web browser:
Code:
 http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=Verify&XML=<AddressValidateRequest USERID="xxxx"><Address ID="0"><Address1></Address1><Address2>6406 Ivy Lane</Address2><City>Greenbelt</City><State>MD</State><Zip5></Zip5><Zip4></Zip4></Address></AddressValidateRequest>


I get a good response (for a valid USERID), But when I use the CICS WEB OPEN, WEB SEND & WEB RECEIVE commands, I consistently get a HTTP Error 400 (Bad Request) response.

This is how my WEB commands look:
Code:
 Exec cics web open host(ws-hostname) HTTP sesstoken(ws-sessiontoken) resp(ws-resp-code) End-exec

where ws-hostname = "testing.shippingapis.com"

Code:
 Exec cics web send sesstoken(ws-sessiontoken) GET
 path(ws-path) pathlength(20) querystring(ws-querystring)
 querystrlen(232) resp(ws-resp-code) End-exec

where ws-path = "/Shippingapis.dll" and ws-querystring is set to "API=Verify&XML=<AddressValidateRequest USERID="xxxx"><Address ID="0"><Address1></Address1><Address2>6406 Ivy Lane</Address2><City>Greenbelt</City><State>MD</State><Zip5></Zip5><Zip4></Zip4></Address></AddressValidateRequest>"

My web receive command looks like:
Code:
 Exec cics web receive into(ws-receive-area) length(ws-receive-length) maxlength(500) sesstoken(ws-sessiontoken) statuscode (ws-statuscode) statustext (ws-statustext) statuslen  (ws-statuslen) resp(ws-resp-code) End-exec

I see 400 in ws-statuscode and "Bad Request" in ws-statustext

if you could see something I'm doing wrong or if there are alternate ways of accomplishing this task, let me know please... I would really appreciate your help.
EK
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sfcgllc
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
EK, Sir,

Sorry, I don't have the good fortune of running on TS 3.1, I'm on 2.3. Have you ever done any HTTP client stuff on that version? Thanks
Beag
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ek1975
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sfcgllc wrote:
EK, Sir,

Sorry, I don't have the good fortune of running on TS 3.1, I'm on 2.3. Have you ever done any HTTP client stuff on that version? Thanks
Beag


sorry, I was out for a while and didn't see your question.

I think it may be possible. Check with CICS Application Reference 2.3 or Internet Guide 2.3.

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/tserver/v31/library/

Good Luck, I am able to do initiate a successful request to USPS and my TCP IP software says I am getting a good status code and response text. But I am able to see only the good status code, the response text is getting lost somewhere!
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