I'm looking for an "easy" solution to getting UPS shipping rates realtime. There are two CPAN modules for this. Business::UPS uses the 2000 tables, which are no longer accurate or updated, and which do not allow shipping from a country other than the US or Puerto Rico.

Business::Shipping looks more promising, but has about 50 dependency modules, and since I have to use LWP through a proxy, I'd have to get in and understand it anyway.

I presume that for the simple rate lookup that I want (always shipping from one location, to various locations), there should be an easier way than the dependency installation route (which has already wasted hours of my time, since each dependency needs another, and so on, and I haven't got the CPAN module working with this proxy -- also many of the modules require a later version of Perl than I have on this server, so I have to massage the source a bit to get them to install.). Has anyone seen simple code to access the XML rate feed? If not, I guess I'll have to reinvent the wheel...

In reply to UPS Shipping rates by mpolo

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