Returns a distance in miles between two zip codes. Parameters: zip1 - 5 digit zip code or Canadian postal code (M3H, M3H 6A7), zip2 - 5 digit zip code or Canadian postal code (M3H, M3H 6A7).
The following is a sample SOAP 1.1 request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
POST /geosvc_api/zipcodelookup.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: api.geosvc.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://skats.net/services/GetDistanceBetweenZipCodes"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tns="http://skats.net/services/" xmlns:types="http://skats.net/services/encodedTypes" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Header>
<tns:AuthenticationHeader>
<SessionID xsi:type="xsd:string">string</SessionID>
</tns:AuthenticationHeader>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<tns:GetDistanceBetweenZipCodes>
<zip1 xsi:type="xsd:string">string</zip1>
<zip2 xsi:type="xsd:string">string</zip2>
</tns:GetDistanceBetweenZipCodes>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tns="http://skats.net/services/" xmlns:types="http://skats.net/services/encodedTypes" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<tns:GetDistanceBetweenZipCodesResponse>
<GetDistanceBetweenZipCodesResult xsi:type="xsd:float">float</GetDistanceBetweenZipCodesResult>
</tns:GetDistanceBetweenZipCodesResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
The following is a sample HTTP GET request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
GET /geosvc_api/zipcodelookup.asmx/GetDistanceBetweenZipCodes?zip1=string&zip2=string HTTP/1.1
Host: api.geosvc.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<float xmlns="http://skats.net/services/literalTypes">float</float>
The following is a sample HTTP POST request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
POST /geosvc_api/zipcodelookup.asmx/GetDistanceBetweenZipCodes HTTP/1.1
Host: api.geosvc.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: length
zip1=string&zip2=string
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<float xmlns="http://skats.net/services/literalTypes">float</float>