Deadline coming due and I'm pulling my hair out. I have a fairly simple shopping cart system I'm writting and I need to be able to get rate quotes from Fedex. So of course I fire up my trusty friend CPAN, unfortunatly I'm not having much luck. There are two modules that seem to be what I need Business::Fedex and Business::Fedex::DirectConnect. The former is Win32 only which won't help me. The latter looks promising however it does not document many of the codes needed, nor does it give the URI for connecting to the FedEx API. Instead there is a FedEx URL where all this information should be at ... but alas FedEx has since changed their site and you have to be an 'approved provider' or have a FedEx account already, both of which apparently cost money (that my company would prefer not to spend), just to even get the documentation.

My question is, has anyone does this successfully? Does anyone here have the documentation? Is there a better way?

Thanks!

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In reply to Obtaining a package shipping rate from FedEx by cfreak

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