Getting Remote Response via HTTP

Rails
1

I am trying to query USPS to get shipping rates in my Rails app.

I am currently fighting Net:HTTP and so I thought I’d ask for some help.

USPS only accepts GET requests, no POST… So, I have something along
the
following lines:

@response_plain = Net::HTTP.get(USPS_SERVER_URL,
“/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=RateV2&XML=#{data}”)

‘data’ is an XML string we generate elsewhere.

All I am getting back is:

getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename

Which I am guessing is the response from whatever low-level OS call
implements this network call (?)…

Well, if I print out the string that it’s using:

http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=RateV2&XML=PRIORITY1002220008105Flat Rate
BoxREGULAR

That URL works. It is the test server USPS URL and returns a response in
a
browser…

So, what am I doing wrong? I have been trying variations of this for
over an
hour and I’m ready to punch the wall.

2

‘data’ is an XML string we generate elsewhere.
http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=RateV2&XML=<RateV2Re
hour and I’m ready to punch the wall.
Take a look at open-uri…

http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/open-uri/rdoc/index.html

3

Hi,

The code below works for me.

Maybe you want to CGI.escape your XML before making your HTTP request
…

def notifyViaSMS(number, message, api, user, password)
result = nil
message = CGI.escape message
request =
“/http/sendmsg?api_id=#{api}&user=#{user}&password=#{password}&to=#{number}&text=#{message}&from=CoreNett&callback=3&deliv_ack=1”
Net::HTTP.start( ‘api.clickatell.com’, 80 ) { |http| result =
http.get(request).body }
end

– G.