Getting a web page from filePro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:13:34PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> At about Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 04:29:01PM -0500,
> Jay Ashworth blabbed on about:
> > Nope.  They have an "API" version at a different URL than the
> > interactive one, specifically designed for this.  You're *supposed* to
> > sign up for it, I gather, but it doesn't seem to authenticate.  It's
> 
> Well -that's- silly.  :)  
> 
> > also a GET CGI, unlike the unbookmarkable POST CGI of the interactive
> > one.
> 
> The interactive one -was- a GET.  I tested it three times this week when I
> was helping Richard.

It's changed.  It used to be a post, clearly specifically so that you
couldn't bookmark results pages and would be forced to sign up for
their silly service to be able to get repetitive searches.

> > On this one, alas, Mark, I think you're going to have to cop to not
> > *knowing* UPS's specification... which makes the rejoinder slightly
> 
> I haven't seen a hard and fast specification.  If one can infer their
> specification from looking at what comes back from performing an
> interactive one, one could potentially call that a very rough specification
> for what they're doing.  It's certainly more than one field where -I- got
> at it.

I blogged it once, but clearly, yes, they've modified the main search
to use it directly.  I retract my comments.

> I suppose it's hard to imagine they're checking the "I agree to the terms
> and conditions" field if they don't even check auth on the private API, eh?  

Apparently.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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