Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[John Doig <john AT creativecommons.org>]

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
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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
>     <mailto:asheesh AT asheesh.org>>
>     To: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org <mailto:cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>     Subject: Re: [cc-devel] CC REST API Updated for Public Domain Mark
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>     On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Doig wrote:
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>     > 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.
>
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