Hi guys, I'm trying to write a program to get FedEx shipping rates, and I'm following their API as outlined in this document: http://www.fedex.com/us/solutions/wis/pdf/fsm_directmanual.pdf
I need specifically to make a POST request to their server as shown on page 12. However I continually get server error 500, and they FedEx support advised me that this means my request is incorrect somewhere. I put the code I"m using at the end of this email. Unfortunately I don't know how to "see" the request the code generates either so I can't paste that here. Any help would be greatly appriciated. -- Gregory Piñero Chief Innovation Officer Blended Technologies (www.blendedtechnologies.com) Code pasted below (contains sample info so it won't work for you): import urllib import urllib2 FedEx_API_URL="https://gatewaybeta.fedex.com:443/GatewayDC"; xml_request="""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <FDXSubscriptionRequest xmlns:api="http://www.fedex.com/fsmapi"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemainstance"; xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FDXSubscriptionRequest.xsd"> <RequestHeader> <CustomerTransactionIdentifier>String</CustomerTransactionIdentifier> <AccountNumber>123456789</AccountNumber> </RequestHeader> <Contact> <PersonName>Jim Smith</PersonName> <CompanyName>Creative Widgets</CompanyName> <Department>Shipping</Department> <PhoneNumber>5405559900</PhoneNumber> <PagerNumber>9999999999</PagerNumber> <FaxNumber>5405559901</FaxNumber> <E-MailAddress>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</E-MailAddress> </Contact> <Address> <Line1>123 Main Street</Line1> <Line2>1st Floor</Line2> <City>Anycity</City> <StateOrProvinceCode>VA</StateOrProvinceCode> <PostalCode>24060</PostalCode> <CountryCode>US</CountryCode> </Address> </FDXSubscriptionRequest>""" values = {'request':xml_request} headers = { 'Referer' : 'YourCompany', 'Host':'https://gatewaybeta.fedex.com/GatewayDC', 'Accept':'image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, text/plain, text/html, */*', 'Content-Type':'image/gif' } data = urllib.urlencode(values) req = urllib2.Request(FedEx_API_URL, data, headers) try: handle = urllib2.urlopen(req) except IOError, e: if hasattr(e, 'reason'): print 'We failed to reach a server.' print 'Reason: ', e.reason print e.info() elif hasattr(e, 'code'): print 'The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.' print 'Error code: ', e.code print e.info() else: the_page = handle.read() print the_page -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
