Archive for the ‘Spider.my’ Category

NEW: Pos Malaysia Parcel rates

Monday, March 1st, 2010

All this work is now packaged up into the spider.my Shipping Quotations API. Check there for latest shipping API methods, shipping modules etc. [caption id="attachment_849" align="alignright" width="220" caption="0.5kg to France, 4 quotes: Pos Laju Document and Parcel, Pos Parcel Surface and Air"][/caption] This morning I modified the International Pos Laju rates ripping ...

HTTP Header viewer updates: see redirects and test If-Modified-Since

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Just a quicky to bring your attention to a couple of updates to my Server Headers viewer page at spider.my, making it a bit more useful. Now you can check server responses to If-Modified-Since, requests that are redirected, and the effect that persistent 'keep-alive' connections have. If-Modified-Since I've added an If-Modified-Since field ...

Pos Malaysia e-commerce shipping quote with AJAX

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

spider.my is long gone: the shipping API has moved to Shipping-Quote.net [caption id="attachment_781" align="alignright" width="240"] Pos Malaysia shipping quote at spider.my - part 1[/caption] Here's a first shot at an AJAX-powered Pos Laju shipping quote. As I said in my previous article on a Pos Malaysia shipping quote API, there should ideally ...

AJAX-enabled exchange rates

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I finally got round to adding client-side scripting to the Currency Conversion page at spider.my! AJAX is 'Asynchronous Java And XML'. Basically, it allows you to embed some functionality in your web page so that your page can communicate with your server after it has been rendered in your visitor's ...

HTTP Ping – roundtrip times using redirect

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

I've been moving some of the stuff I wrote on poditronic.com over to spider.my recently. I can tell the Spinneret API is starting to settle down, because there's less pain every time I update my existing applications to match the new API. It also shows up some lingering bugs too! [caption ...