>>On the US Postal Service site, you can lookup a city based on a zip code passed from the page. You can also lookup a zip code based on a city. What I am trying to guess here is the exact URL to pass (in VFP) including a Zip Code parameter without going to the site itself. I am trying to deduce guesses by looking at the source of the page itself. For example, with Web Connect, I put the name of the function to call, then the parameter(s) separated by tildes [i.e., ~]. If anyone can tell me if this is possible, has anyone done this, what some good guesses would be, I would be most appreciative.
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>>For a start, see:
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>>USPS
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>>then view the frame source.
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>>Many TIA!
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>I see that yo usolved your problem. But for fufture reference you can do what you were trying to do.
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>The USPS cgi program only needs to have the form variables it is looking for to be able to process your request and formulate a response.
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>You could approach it in a couple of ways. First, you could automate IE, have it navigate to that site, fill in the form variable with something like
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>oIE.Document.Forms(1).ctystzip.value = "78664-1234"
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>and then sumbmit the request. After waiting for the result, you can parse out the returned SQL to get your city. This is kind of kludgy though, IMHO.
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>A more graceful way would be to use wwIPStuff.
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>The code would be something like:
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>oIP = CREATEOBJECT('wwIPStuff')
>oIP.HTTPConnect('www.usps.com')
>oIP.AddPostKey('ctyStZip','78664-1234')
>lcBuffer = ""
>oIP.HTTPGetEx("/cgi-bin/zip4/ctystzip",@lcBUffer)
>?lcBuffer
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>lcBuffer will hold the resulting HTML that you can parse for your city. I got the form action and hte name of the form variable by viewing the source of the USPS search page. I tried it. It works.
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>I know that you don't need this now, but knowing that this is within your power can open some doors for you.


Great stuff to know for future ref. I new you could pass to form action GET pages but I did not know about the POST.

I don't think I would count on some other web site keeping references the same.
But then on the other hand we are talking about the Post Office.

Jeff