Re: usps verify address api

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

See https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/dm-1105httprestdb2/ especially the
section "URL encoding/decoding"

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 6:20 PM Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> you have to URI encode the xml
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 5:41 PM Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > surely someone is using this out there?
> >
> > what am I doing wrong?
> > I keep getting error message...
> >
> > 80040B19XML Syntax Error: Please check the XML request to see if it can be
> > parsed.USPSCOM::DoAuth
> >
> > so I know I am getting there... just something wrong with my xml
> > delivery...
> > my userid all XXXXX'x for security...
> >
> >  select RESPONSEMSG
> >  from table(systools.httppostclobverbose('
> > https://secure.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll?API=Verify&xml='
> >                                         ,'<httpHeader><header
> > name="Content-type" value="x-www-form-urlencoded"/></httpHeader>'
> >
> >
> > ,systools.urlencode('<AddressValidateRequest
> > USERID="xxxxxxxxxxxx"><Revision>1</Revision><Address ID="0"><Address1>4166
> > Berkeley
> >
> > Landing</Address1></Address2><City>Kennesaw</City><State>GA</State><Zip5>30144</Zip5></Zip4></Address></AddressValidateRequest>','')
> >                                         )
> >            ) as request;
> >
> > when I run in postman, all good... I get the verification xml back...
> > using the same url, same xml string...
> > in postman I choose x-www-form-urlencoded and XML
> >
> >
> > tia...
> >
> > Jay