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Indeed. I've written two different libraries to talk to their stuff myself. One for their earliest and one for ECS. I didn't CPAN them b/c there were simultaneously some there. Someone will redo it all with the new framework before ECS support really ends. If they don't, I will. :) By ending support I'm sure they mean not answering questions, fixing bugs, or porting new formats of product data. I cannot imagine they would pull the plug on the services for at least a full year after. There are tens of thousands of sites running on it.

Inside Net::Amazon::Request there is a config service address of our $AMZN_XML_URL  = 'http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService'; That's the ECS platform.

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Re^2: Accessing Amazon Data
by InterGuru (Sexton) on Nov 28, 2007 at 17:10 UTC

    I looked more carefully at the Net::Amazon change document. I realize that the are referring to ECS3 and 4 as AWS3 and 4.

    From the change document.-- http://search.cpan.org/src/BOUMENOT/Net-Amazon-0.46/Changes

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    0.36 (01/09/2007) (cb) Christopher Boumenot is taking over has maintainer of Net::Amazon. (cb) Update the library to use AWS4 from AWS3. The changes involved are quite deep. While I have strived to keep interfaces the same that was not always possible. I am sure there are still bugs to be had that need to be fixed. -----------------

    The last update to the module in 11/16/07

    I will update my copy of the module, test it to see if there are any interface changes, and modify my code if needed.

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