CF tag for UPS

2003-01-06 Thread Stacy Young
Colleague of mine needs to access UPS shipping services...Has anyone been
successful at creating a tag for MX that uses their XML protocol?

Thx!

-Stace


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Re: CF tag for UPS

2003-01-06 Thread Bud
On 1/6/03, Stacy Young penned:
Colleague of mine needs to access UPS shipping services...Has anyone been
successful at creating a tag for MX that uses their XML protocol?

I actually built tags for the Rates  Services and Tracking for my 
shopping cart with the intention of making them freely available. 
I've been going through a quite trying time with UPS trying to get 
licensed as a developer to distribute my cf_ezcart with the tools 
included. They've been fighting with me tooth and nail trying to keep 
me out, but have actually sent me an application (after 3 months of 
hassling them) after I assured them that all UPS associated files and 
tags would be encrypted (not that they can't be decrypted), and that 
I'd include warnings, etc. in my licensing that decrypting them is 
illegal, immoral, wrong, and will result in a public flogging and 
loss of UPS access privileges for anyone doing so or changing any of 
the code. I get to pay a $1,000 per day testing fee for the privilege 
of allowing my clients to ship using UPS under my developer's key.

They've also informed me that they have their legal department 
checking places like the Developer's Exchange for anyone distributing 
modular code to access their systems, without being licensed to do 
so, and may possibly take legal action.

Now. I AM able to distribute my cart without the files included, then 
be hired as a consultant to the merchant to integrate the tools under 
their developer's key once they register and receive a developer's 
key and access key. To integrate the tools I have to go through the 
long, tedious process of... uploading the files to the server. The 
whole thing is ludicrous. It's like they're begging people to use 
USPS.

The only good thing about the whole thing for me is, once I get 
approved, I get listed with only about a dozen other shopping carts 
(instead of the hundreds you usually get lost with) on the UPS 
website, most of which are either overpriced or just plain suck.

Anyway, without actually distributing the files, and maybe screwing 
myself with UPS, if you contact me off list maybe we can work 
something out where I can work with you on the project. I'm sure 
you'll save a few hours, and we'll avoid UPS licensing issues for 
both of us.
-- 

Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.twcreations.com/
954.721.3452
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RE: CF tag for UPS

2003-01-06 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
Geez, forget UPS. Why would they be so adamant against all this?

Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division


-Original Message-
From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:18 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CF tag for UPS

On 1/6/03, Stacy Young penned:
Colleague of mine needs to access UPS shipping services...Has anyone
been
successful at creating a tag for MX that uses their XML protocol?

I actually built tags for the Rates  Services and Tracking for my 
shopping cart with the intention of making them freely available. 
I've been going through a quite trying time with UPS trying to get 
licensed as a developer to distribute my cf_ezcart with the tools 
included. They've been fighting with me tooth and nail trying to keep 
me out, but have actually sent me an application (after 3 months of 
hassling them) after I assured them that all UPS associated files and 
tags would be encrypted (not that they can't be decrypted), and that 
I'd include warnings, etc. in my licensing that decrypting them is 
illegal, immoral, wrong, and will result in a public flogging and 
loss of UPS access privileges for anyone doing so or changing any of 
the code. I get to pay a $1,000 per day testing fee for the privilege 
of allowing my clients to ship using UPS under my developer's key.

They've also informed me that they have their legal department 
checking places like the Developer's Exchange for anyone distributing 
modular code to access their systems, without being licensed to do 
so, and may possibly take legal action.

Now. I AM able to distribute my cart without the files included, then 
be hired as a consultant to the merchant to integrate the tools under 
their developer's key once they register and receive a developer's 
key and access key. To integrate the tools I have to go through the 
long, tedious process of... uploading the files to the server. The 
whole thing is ludicrous. It's like they're begging people to use 
USPS.

The only good thing about the whole thing for me is, once I get 
approved, I get listed with only about a dozen other shopping carts 
(instead of the hundreds you usually get lost with) on the UPS 
website, most of which are either overpriced or just plain suck.

Anyway, without actually distributing the files, and maybe screwing 
myself with UPS, if you contact me off list maybe we can work 
something out where I can work with you on the project. I'm sure 
you'll save a few hours, and we'll avoid UPS licensing issues for 
both of us.
-- 

Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.twcreations.com/
954.721.3452

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RE: CF tag for UPS

2003-01-06 Thread Stacy Young
Hi Bud,

I got myself an account with them and hooked up a CF tag that uses
CFX_RAWSOCKET

It seems CFMX is unable to communicate properly with their XML service so I
needed to drop to Java. (RawSocket being a java custom tag)

That tag even comes with a basic example of using it with the UPS
service...fairly painless once you've got that part done.

Cheers,

Stace

-Original Message-
From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:18 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CF tag for UPS

On 1/6/03, Stacy Young penned:
Colleague of mine needs to access UPS shipping services...Has anyone been
successful at creating a tag for MX that uses their XML protocol?

I actually built tags for the Rates  Services and Tracking for my 
shopping cart with the intention of making them freely available. 
I've been going through a quite trying time with UPS trying to get 
licensed as a developer to distribute my cf_ezcart with the tools 
included. They've been fighting with me tooth and nail trying to keep 
me out, but have actually sent me an application (after 3 months of 
hassling them) after I assured them that all UPS associated files and 
tags would be encrypted (not that they can't be decrypted), and that 
I'd include warnings, etc. in my licensing that decrypting them is 
illegal, immoral, wrong, and will result in a public flogging and 
loss of UPS access privileges for anyone doing so or changing any of 
the code. I get to pay a $1,000 per day testing fee for the privilege 
of allowing my clients to ship using UPS under my developer's key.

They've also informed me that they have their legal department 
checking places like the Developer's Exchange for anyone distributing 
modular code to access their systems, without being licensed to do 
so, and may possibly take legal action.

Now. I AM able to distribute my cart without the files included, then 
be hired as a consultant to the merchant to integrate the tools under 
their developer's key once they register and receive a developer's 
key and access key. To integrate the tools I have to go through the 
long, tedious process of... uploading the files to the server. The 
whole thing is ludicrous. It's like they're begging people to use 
USPS.

The only good thing about the whole thing for me is, once I get 
approved, I get listed with only about a dozen other shopping carts 
(instead of the hundreds you usually get lost with) on the UPS 
website, most of which are either overpriced or just plain suck.

Anyway, without actually distributing the files, and maybe screwing 
myself with UPS, if you contact me off list maybe we can work 
something out where I can work with you on the project. I'm sure 
you'll save a few hours, and we'll avoid UPS licensing issues for 
both of us.
-- 

Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.twcreations.com/
954.721.3452

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RE: CF tag for UPS

2003-01-06 Thread Bud
On 1/6/03, Stacy Young penned:
I got myself an account with them and hooked up a CF tag that uses
CFX_RAWSOCKET

It seems CFMX is unable to communicate properly with their XML service so I
needed to drop to Java. (RawSocket being a java custom tag)

That tag even comes with a basic example of using it with the UPS
service...fairly painless once you've got that part done.

Yeah, mine works with CFX_Rawsocket, Microsoft's MSXML COM object and 
cfhttp with CF 4.01 and 4.5.
-- 

Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.twcreations.com/
954.721.3452
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