Re: QSYS2.HTTP_GET problem with the USPS APIs

[Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies to the USPS--I not longer can find any error in their 
examples. Likely old eyes and fat fingers on my part.

For the record, here's an example of what I have found works (formatted 
for hopefully better readability):

values QSYS2.HTTP_GET('http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll'
concat '?API=Verify&XML=' concat
url_encode(
    '<AddressValidateRequest USERID="126NONE03897">' concat
        '<Revision>1</Revision>' concat
        '<Address ID="0">' concat
            '<Address1>Suite 2</Address1>' concat
            '<Address2>8 Wildwood Drive</Address2>' concat
            '<City>Old Lyme</City>' concat
            '<State>CT</State>' concat
            '<Zip5/>' concat
            '<Zip4/>' concat
        '</Address>' concat
    '</AddressValidateRequest>')
)
;

It returns an XML string like this (again formatted for hopefully better 
readability):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AddressValidateResponse>
    <Address ID="0">
        <Address1>STE 2</Address1>
        <Address2>8 WILDWOOD DR</Address2>
        <City>OLD LYME</City>
        <State>CT</State>
        <Zip5>06371</Zip5>
        <Zip4>1844</Zip4>
        <DeliveryPoint>08</DeliveryPoint>
        <CarrierRoute>R010</CarrierRoute>
        <Footnotes>N</Footnotes>
        <DPVConfirmation>S</DPVConfirmation>
        <DPVCMRA>N</DPVCMRA>
        <DPVFootnotes>AACC</DPVFootnotes>
        <Business>N</Business>
        <CentralDeliveryPoint>N</CentralDeliveryPoint>
        <Vacant>N</Vacant>
    </Address>
</AddressValidateResponse>

Note that it has standardized the address and filled in the ZIP and ZIP+4.

You could also omit the city name but provided the zip and it will 
figure out the city name.

Sam

On 1/5/2022 2:08 PM, Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

> Now I've got to figure out why some of the USPS examples, which I
> > copied, don't seem to work.
>
> Um, Sam, I assume that you've, like, visited the Post Office before ... :)