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  • From: John Doig <john AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] cc-devel Digest, Vol 65, Issue 4
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:28:07 -0800

Hello again Lisa,

After first replying to your issue earlier today, I realized that you were right in your assumption that a change must have been introduced by the recent updates made to the API.

The /license/standard/get API call was supposed to only support HTTP GET requests, but looking back on the old codebase reveals that this wasn't always the case. HTTP POST requests were being supported even though our doc's said otherwise.

I've updated our existing codebase to be backwards compatible and accept POST requests to the /license/standard/get call. Changing your code is no longer necessary, but I would still recommend changing the URL of the API call to ../issue if you insist on making POST requests.

Apologies for not accepting responsibility earlier on and thank you for bringing this issue to our attention!

Thanks,
-John Doig

On 01/25/2011 12:09 PM, John Doig wrote:
Hello Lisa,

The issue appears to be that you are attempting to POST to an URL that does not accept POST requests. If you change the line:

$ch = curl_init('http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/1.5/license/standard/get');

to:

$ch = curl_init('http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/1.5/license/standard/issue');

then your call to the API will return a result other than "None."

For more information about the 'issue' and 'get' API calls, you can view the API's documentation at http://api.creativecommons.org/docs/readme_15.html#license-class-get. Hope this helps resolve your issue!

-John Doig


On 01/25/2011 12:00 PM, Lisa Brooks wrote:
Hi there -

Recently -- within the last couple of weeks or so -- one of our processes here that relies on a call to the CC API stopped working.

We use cURL and PHP to post data to the CC API and get back the license URI. Here's the function that we use -- this hasn't been changed in months:

function makeCCLicense($commercial, $derivatives, $jurisdiction)
{
$ch = curl_init('http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/1.5/license/standard/get' <http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/1.5/license/standard/get%27>);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'commercial=' . $commercial . '&derivatives=' . $derivatives . '&jurisdiction=' . $jurisdiction);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
....}

I've been testing for clues and have set this up to print the contents of the $result variable to the screen. I get "None". I used to get something like "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/";, depending on the chooser's choices.

I've run out of things to check/tweak on our side. I'm now wondering if we are experiencing this problem due to the changes that you all just did to the API?

Appreciate any help you can offer - thanks!
~Lisa

Lisa M. Brooks
Co-director
IssueLab: bringing nonprofit research into focus - http://www.issuelab.org
lisa AT issuelab.org <mailto:lisa AT issuelab.org>
773-649-1790


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1. Re: CC REST API Updated for Public Domain Mark (Asheesh Laroia)


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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:16:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT asheesh.org
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Subject: Re: [cc-devel] CC REST API Updated for Public Domain Mark
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Doig wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> This morning, the CC REST API was updated to include support for the
> Public Domain Mark and to deprecate the issuing of the retired
Public
> Domain Certification and Dedication. We have also added a new
element,
> `deprecated`, in license responses, that denotes whether or not the
> issued license has been deprecated by Creative Commons. These
changes
> affect all versions of the REST API, excluding 1.0.

This is a bit of a late reply, but -- it's *great* to see the
'deprecated'
metadata showing up in the REST API. That's excellent.

And the new Public Domain stuff Mark work been a long time coming.
A lot
of CC fans really appreciate the work CC is doing on revising
that, and so
it's a really welcome sign that it's stable enough to land in the API.

-- Asheesh.

--
You will triumph over your enemy.


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