Comments on: SOAP Zip Code Web Service!

By: S Ratheepan

S Ratheepan — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:29:38 +0000

i got an error like this..

can you anyone help to me?????

SoapFault Object ( [message:protected] => The database server is undergoing maintenance. Please try again later. [string:Exception:private] => [code:protected] => 0 [file:protected] =>

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:20:14 +0000

As of now, it does not. I am working on the REST version of this and also updating the database with additional API options.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:55:10 +0000

Does your service support REST requests? If so, what is the format for making such requests?

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:36:25 +0000

Hi Will,

Is this service limited to United States or it serves for other countries too ? I am looking for something which help for maximum country of out planet. Will it able to fulfill my requirement ?

By: Tony Garcia

Tony Garcia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:00:40 +0000

hello. Thanks for providing this great service. I’ve been testing it and would like to use it for a site I’m developing. I do have one question, though — how often is the zip code data updated?

thanks again

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:32:16 +0000

Great article…but…..any ideas on this error:

SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string ‘\x91…’ is not a valid utf-8 string [faultcode] => Client [faultcodens] => http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ )

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:37:35 +0000

Getting Distances Between Zip Codes – getDistanceByZip(int zipcode1, int zipcode2)

The arguments should have been ‘String’ and not ‘int’. What if someone wants to calculate distance between ’07044′ and ’07928′? Both are valid NJ zip codes.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:28:26 +0000

Great article, very extensive. The best one I found on the first page of Google. Looking forward to Part 2. Thanks!

By: Weast

Weast — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:41:04 +0000

Hi Will,
This is a great service, thanks for all your hard work! I’ve noticed that some zip codes return no results on the radius search (i.e. 60586, 60491). My requests to other zip codes work beautifully, but occasionally I see these rogues. Could this be due to outdated data?

Thanks!

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:54:37 +0000

Hi Diego,

This service isn’t going anywhere. I will be releasing a new version of it very soon, but this version will be available for 6 months or so after that release.