Well I've looked a lot of places and can't find any code out there to do the UPS OnLine Rate stuff in perl. UPS provides one in java (that I can't even get to compile ... thank you very much Sun Microsystems and UPS) and one in VBS (cold shiver).

I'd really like one in perl ... wouldn't we all?

The old Business::UPS module did this for their old rating service, and even contacted Justin Wheeler, but he said he didn't have a new one ... and that trail died.

So like a good hack, I started down that road myself. Only to find lots and lots of bumps.

The LPW::UserAgent code does not do HTTPS - at least as far as I can tell, and the UPS stuff is all HTTPS so I'm stuck.

It would seem I need to install Net::SSL but that keeps coming back with Crypt::SSLeay (from CPAN as it does not appear to be available from ppm at ActiveState) which is just confusing the heck out of me ... and I'm having no luck installing it.

I'm doing development on a Windows based machine, with ActiveState build 635.

Bad day, bad day, bad day.

Any help would be welcome.

In reply to UPS Online over HTTPS by nzsvz9

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