I'm pretty sure that pulling rate quotes from the UPS site via the CGI gateway is still a violation of their site usage rules. Registering and using the XML tools was for the most part painless and the tools are very cool (address verification, tracking, rates, etc.). They also send email notifications when any changes will take place. If the quote fails (either from a connectivity standpoint or any other error) the order is flagged as "manual" and bypasses the shipping calcs allowing for the checkout transaction to complete. Reliability? Pretty good! We typically process 600+ orders per week, and I honestly cannot remember the last time a rate quote failed. Only one bad not: their tech support/customer service is HORRIBLE.
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: UPS Prices I used to use the Forta tag and loved it. Then UPS started playing hide-the-api and broke it... At the time, at least. After that experience I decided I can't depend on a 3rd party's good will to let ecommerce sites keep working. Built a tag that uses downloaded/imported rates rather than trying to keep up with UPS, their changing API and usage restrictions (at the time of v1.1 and 2.0 (which was a whole year-and-a-half ago... Now they're on V5??) pulling rates from their site became a violation of their site usage rules. Don't know if they've changed, but from what they told me at the time they were pretty solid in wanting to migrate everyone to their own licensed tools. The solution isn't perfect by any stretch. Not *everything* is supported, although what most U.S. shippers seem to need is. Plus the rates need to be updated annually... But at least that means UPS-shipping sites don't break themselves more than once a year. --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -----Original Message----- From: Dunwiddie, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 7:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: UPS Prices Does anyone have a page working that gets the online ups shipping cost? We looked at this a while back, and Ben Forta's tag UPSPrice.cfm was working then, but now that we're ready to put something in place, I'm getting a "Connection Failure" error and after looking in to it, it looks like the tag is on version 3 of ups's system, but their system is now on version 5. I just went to DevEx and got the latest version of the tag that was modified Oct 15th of this year, and it's still the version 3. Any help with what small changes I might need to make to this tag to get it to work now or any other options that would work would be greatly appreciated and would save me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
