Re: [mv] TaxShipping directive using zip codes in NYS

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Ben Goldstein (bdg@endpointsecure.com):
> 
> In fact, since adding this directive to the catalog on a test server
> running on the same machine as our production server it seems like
> responses all around are bit erratic, i.e., sometimes a request goes
> unanswered, while sometimes a request goes quickly as requests to the
> server usually do...but this may be just an unrelated network problem.

Hmm. Even if there are a few thousand zip codes, this shouldn't be a
significant problem if you have only one catalog. You can check the
difference in the RSS of the process with a small one and a big one if
you want to, but I don't think this should add more than a meg to the
executable size.  This is not an appreciable problem on any modern OS
and server hardware. If you had a bunch of catalogs, yes, it might have
some real impact.

> 
> I'd very much appreciate it if anyone would enlighten me as to a
> better way of doing things and/or if anyone would let me know whether
> or not I should in fact be concerned about using such an immense
> directive in my catalog file to get the job done.
> 
> Incidentally, we are using MiniVend V3.14-5, Perl 5.005_03,
> MySQL 3.22.27 and Linux Mandrake release 6.1.
> 

The only way out is to write a custom routine along the lines of
[fly-tax], which you will find in flycat.cfg. There are better
things in MV4 -- this might be one for Tie::Watch, which allows you
to attach a subroutine to a catalog.cfg directive. Or more probably
for SalesTaxFunction, which allows you to attach a Perl subroutine to
do salestax.

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