HotJobs API

After getting authentication unable to post the Job

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:14:33 -0800

Hi
This is Sagar

I am passing the Sample Request Xml to the Hot Jobs Posting .But its giving execption like this
The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized . (Protool error)

This is my Code

byte[] Data = StringToUtf8Bytes(strRequest);
HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(strPostURL);
myRequest.Headers.Add("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token",strTokenValue);
myRequest.Headers.Add("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp", strDuration);
myRequest.Headers.Add("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature", strSignature);
//signature is the Md5 0f (requestXml,Duration,Jobid which i s null, recieved value token,Licennce key)
myRequest.Method = "POST";
myRequest.ContentLength = Data.Length;
//Job Post XML Request
// myRequest.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
myRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
myRequest.Accept = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
myRequest.Timeout = 100000;
string RetVal = "";
try
{
Stream newStream = myRequest.GetRequestStream();
newStream.Write(Data, 0, Data.Length);
newStream.Close();
//Read the response.
try
{
System.DateTime StartTime = DateTime.Now;
HttpWebResponse myResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myRequest.GetResponse();
Stream ResponseStream = myResponse.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader ResponseStreamReader = new StreamReader(ResponseStream);
RetVal = (RetVal + ResponseStreamReader.ReadToEnd());
ResponseStreamReader.Close();
}
catch (WebException WebExcp)
{
string strRes = WebExcp.Message;
string strStatusExp = WebExcp.Status.ToString();
}
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
RetVal = ex.Message;
}
return RetVal;

API KEY Link not Working

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:11:16 -0800

When I click to get the API Key for hotjobs at http://hotjobsresources.com/technologypartners.cfm

I get file not found.

Any other way to get one?

API KEY Link not Working

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:11:16 -0800

Brian,

Where is that linked from?

Thanks,
Robyn Tippins
Community Manager, YDN

Advanced request for HotJobs RSS feed is not working

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:17:51 -0800

I tried the following advanced request, published as example in Yahoo HotJobs RSS feed documentation:

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/api/jobsearch/sea...ords_all=writer &city1=San+Jose &state1=CA

Instead of RSS feed I got the following error message:

Sorry, Forbidden. You don't have permission to access this URL on this server.

Can anyone please let me know how I can get required permission - detailed answer will be very much appreciated.

Thanks a lot ...

Advanced request for HotJobs RSS feed is not working

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:17:51 -0800

Please use this url http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-rss-l-San_Jose-CA-k-writer

This url can be found in job search results page [1] below the filters on the left side of the page, its called "GET SEARCH RESULTS" click on the rss icon

We are in the verge of updating the RSS document , sorry for the trouble

Thanks,

[1]. http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-search?src=ad...ion=&salary[min]=&salary[type]=yearly&commitment=FT&commitment=PT&jobtype=PERM&jobtype=CONT&travel_amount=&company=&source=&search_jobs=Search+Jobs

QUOTE (webboholic1954 @ Dec 8 2009, 07:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I tried the following advanced request, published as example in Yahoo HotJobs RSS feed documentation:

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/api/jobsearch/sea...ords_all=writer &city1=San+Jose &state1=CA

Instead of RSS feed I got the following error message:

Sorry, Forbidden. You don't have permission to access this URL on this server.

Can anyone please let me know how I can get required permission - detailed answer will be very much appreciated.

Thanks a lot ...

HotJobs API

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:17:54 -0700

Is it possible to configure (use) the API to search for and display relevant job search results based on a user's form input (from a unrelated form)? More specifically, we have a multipage form that enables users to select a 'job category' and 'job title', as well as, contact information, i.e., first name, last name, city, state, zip code, etc. Ideally, we would like to display relevant job search results based on the user's 'job title', 'city', 'state' and/or 'zip code'.

Is this possible?

How, specifically, can it be accomplished?

Many thanks.

Jeff -

Imposter Employer

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:29:03 -0700

I recently recieved an email from an employer claiming to be affiliated with a company named International Design Centers, offering me a position as "US Financial Manager". This is a scam employer, using the hotjobs website to search and choose their victim. I'm not sure if you can stop these actions or if I'm addressing my concerns towards the correct department. I have all documents, information and email messages saved and would more than happy to forward them. Please take this as a warning!! There are predetors on your hotjobs website taking advantage of job seekers!! Please reply. I hope I can be of assistance in your investigation on this matter.

Imposter Employer

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:29:03 -0700

Hi,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The company named International Design Centers doesn't exist in our database, so they couldn't have got your email address from us. This sounds like a phishing email.

Please forward the email you received from this company to saniye@yahoo-inc.com so that we can double check.

Thanks,
Saniye

QUOTE (Nita @ Sep 14 2009, 05:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I recently recieved an email from an employer claiming to be affiliated with a company named International Design Centers, offering me a position as "US Financial Manager". This is a scam employer, using the hotjobs website to search and choose their victim. I'm not sure if you can stop these actions or if I'm addressing my concerns towards the correct department. I have all documents, information and email messages saved and would more than happy to forward them. Please take this as a warning!! There are predetors on your hotjobs website taking advantage of job seekers!! Please reply. I hope I can be of assistance in your investigation on this matter.

Cant retrieve search results

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:39:19 -0700

Hi, I'm able to successfully login and create a search, but when I try to retrieve the results, I get "Requested Resume Filter not found".

I'm running this search:

CODE

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
                <SearchCriteria>
                   
                    <SearchCriterion>
                        <CriterionName>Keywords</CriterionName>
                        <CriterionValue>engineer</CriterionValue>
                    </SearchCriterion>
                
                    <SearchCriterion>
                        <CriterionName>Location</CriterionName>
                        <CriterionValue>
                        <Location>
                            <Municipality>Sunnyvale</Municipality>
                            <Region>CA</Region>
                            <CountryCode>USA</CountryCode>
                            <Radius>0</Radius>
                        </Location>
                        </CriterionValue>
                    </SearchCriterion>
                

                </SearchCriteria>

and I get this response:

CODE

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:33:09 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
Location: http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilter/1247671989
Content-Location: http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilter/1247671989
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:33:09 GMT
Cache-Control: private
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ResumeFilter xmlns="http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/schema.rng" xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" xml:lang="en-US" yahoo:uri="http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilter/1247671989" yahoo:updated="2009-07-15T15:33:09Z" yahoo:created="2009-07-15T15:33:09Z" id="1247671989">
<id>1247671989</id>
<ResumeCount>963</ResumeCount>
</ResumeFilter>

So I issue a request for the results:

CODE

http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilter/1247671989/Resumes;start=1;count=100

And get the response:

CODE

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:33:11 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
Cache-Control: private
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<yahoo:error xmlns="http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/schema.rng" xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" xml:lang="en-US">
<yahoo:description>Requested Resume Filter not found</yahoo:description>
<yahoo:detail>
<ErrorCode>511</ErrorCode>
</yahoo:detail>
</yahoo:error>

Any idea why the Requested Resume Filter is not found?

Thanks in advance,

Beau

Cant retrieve search results

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:39:19 -0700

Hi Beau,
A Resume Filter (the search you have created) is valid only for that particular session, and does not live across sessions. You should call the search results in the same session in which you have created the search. You have created the search in one session, requested for the authentication token (which creates a new session) and then called for search results. The Authentication web service should be called only once in the beginning and the same token should be used for other web services. The token expires after 8 hours, post which you need to start a new session.
Thanks
--
Amit Rawat

Web 2.0 marketing portal web site platform

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:28:32 -0700

Web 2.0 marketing portal web site platform.
I am looking for serious software engineer architect that would be abel to develop a Web 2.0 marketing portal web site platform modeled from yahoo.com by the means of the Yahoo! User Interface Library coding.
Having a real tight budget I would rather like to find a candidates from Emerging economy
As this kind of platform is kind of sophisticated I would rather like to start from developping the welcome page and all its services before starting developping all the suplementary scripts of any kind of relevant sites belonging to this web portal products and services offered.
I also need some other kind of software developper in PHP & Perl programming language for some other projects

Web 2.0 marketing portal web site platform

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:28:32 -0700

Please post these in the business forum.

http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showforum=99

Robyn Tippins
Community Manager, YDN

Need a PHP collaborator for a new project

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:15:48 -0700

I want to develop a new online project but I need a PHp collaborator to work with. For more details, please contact me. Note that you will be part of the project but I don't have a budget for this.

Need a PHP collaborator for a new project

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:15:48 -0700

Please post these in the business forum.

http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showforum=99

Robyn Tippins
Community Manager, YDN

HTTP Custom Header

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:17:09 -0700

I am getting HotJob Status Code 12 (Invalid Signature) returned from my job post.

The following is my test Java program:

QUOTE

package test.hotjob;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

public class HotJobTest
{
private static final String DEFAULT_USERNAME="myLoginb";
private static final String DEFAULT_PASSWORD="myPassword";
private static final String DEFAULT_LICENSE ="myLicense";

private static String REQUEST_AUTH=""
+ "\n"
+ " + " xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"\n"
+ " xmlns:yjob=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0\"\n"
+ " xmlns:ycontrol=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0\">\n"
+ " \n"
+ " "+DEFAULT_USERNAME+"\n"
+ " "+DEFAULT_PASSWORD+" \n"
+ " 3.0\n"
+ " "+DEFAULT_LICENSE+"\n"
+ " \n"
// + " 1-EVWGO\n"
+ "\n";

private static String REQUEST_POST=""
+ "\n"
+ "\n"
+ " SLOT\n"
+ " PROFILE_ID\n"
+ " \n"
+ " POST\n"
+ " true\n"
+ " 30\n"
+ " 7\n"
+ " No\n"
+ " SWEngineer-SlotNew\n"
+ " IONUM-00001\n"
+ " Change-EDU/EXP\n"
+ " HJTest\n"
+ " \n"
+ " Yahoo\n"
+ " HJ\n"
+ " 5109360000\n"
+ " sswami@yahoo-inc.com\n"
+ " \n"
+ " \n"
+ " New York\n"
+ " NY\n"
+ " 10001\n"
+ " USA\n"
+ " \n"
+ " \n"
+ " Sunnyvale\n"
+ " CA\n"
+ " 94089\n"
+ " USA\n"
+ " \n"
+ " MIS\n"
+ " MIS-SOFTW\n"
+ " CONT\n"
+ " PT\n"
+ " 5-10\n"
+ " PHD\n"
+ " Salaried\n"
+ " 100000\n"
+ " 120000\n"
+ " Negotiable\n"
+ " true\n"
+ " 0\n"
+ " Yes\n"
+ " \n"
+ " O\n"
+ " \n"
+ " \n"
+ " First Name\n"
+ " Last Name\n"
+ " 111-111-1111\n"
+ " \n"
+ " Apply FAX\n"
+ " http://abc.com\n"
+ " bhaskarr@yahoo-inc.com\n"
+ " \n"
+ " 123 333rd Street\n"
+ " 5th floor\n"
+ " Oakland\n"
+ " CA\n"
+ " 94089\n"
+ " USA\n"
+ " \n"
+ " \n"
+ " SHORT DESCRIPTION\n"
+ " LONG DESCRIPTION\n"
+ " \n"
+ "\n"
;

protected String requestHotJobAuth()
{
StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();

try
{
URL url = new URL( "https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens" );
URLConnection conn= url.openConnection();

if( conn instanceof HttpURLConnection )
((HttpURLConnection )conn).setRequestMethod( "POST" );

conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type" ,"text/xml; charset=utf-8" );
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString( REQUEST_AUTH.length()));

conn.setDoOutput( true );
conn.setDoInput( true );

// Write the request out to the URL.
OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
out.write( REQUEST_AUTH.getBytes() );
out.close();

// Read the response from the URL.
BufferedReader br =new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream() ));

for( String ln="" ; ln != null ; ln = br.readLine() )
{
sb.append( ln.replaceAll("<" ,"<" )
.replaceAll(">" ,">" )
.replaceAll("&" ,"&" )
.replaceAll(""" ,"\"" )
);
}
br.close();
}
catch( MalformedURLException mux )
{
System.out.print("ERROR: https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens is malformed!");
}
catch( IOException iox )
{
System.out.print("ERROR: https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens is NOT reachable!");
}

return sb.toString();
}

protected String postToHotJob()
{
long tStamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String response= requestHotJobAuth();
String token = response.substring( response.indexOf("")+7, response.indexOf(""));

try
{
MessageDigest msgDigest= MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
StringBuffer signature=new StringBuffer();

msgDigest.reset();
msgDigest.update( (REQUEST_POST +Long.toString(tStamp) +token +DEFAULT_LICENSE).getBytes() );
byte md5[] = msgDigest.digest();

for(int i = 0 ; i < md5.length ; i++ )
{
int intVal = md5[i] & 0xff;

if( intVal < 10 )
signature.append("0");

signature.append( Integer.toHexString( intVal ) );
}

URL url = new URL( "http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Jobs" );
URLConnection conn= url.openConnection();

if( conn instanceof HttpURLConnection )
((HttpURLConnection )conn).setRequestMethod( "POST" );

conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type" ,"text/xml; charset=utf-8" );
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length" ,Integer.toString( REQUEST_POST.length()));
conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token" ,token );
System.out.println( "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token: " +token );
conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp" ,Long.toString(tStamp) );
System.out.println( "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp: "+Long.toString(tStamp) );
conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature" ,signature.toString() );
System.out.println( "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature: "+signature.toString() );

conn.setDoOutput( true );
conn.setDoInput( true );

// Write the request out to the URL.
OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
out.write( REQUEST_POST.getBytes() );
System.out.println( REQUEST_POST );
out.close();

// Read the response from the URL.
BufferedReader br =new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream() ));

for( String ln="" ; ln != null ; ln = br.readLine() )
{
sb.append( ln.replaceAll("<" ,"<" )
.replaceAll(">" ,">" )
.replaceAll("&" ,"&" )
.replaceAll(""" ,"\"" )
);
}
br.close();
}
catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException nax)
{
System.out.print("ERROR: Could not instantiate MD5 message digest!");
}
catch( MalformedURLException mux )
{
System.out.print("ERROR: https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens is malformed!");
}
catch( IOException iox )
{
System.out.println( iox.getMessage() );
System.out.println("ERROR: https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens is NOT reachable!");
}

return sb.toString();
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
HotJobTest hjAuth = new HotJobTest();

System.out.println( hjAuth.postToHotJob().replace("><" ,">\n<") );
}
}

The Job post is directly taken from http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/job_pos...xml-sample.html. Is there any sample Java program out there that can illustrate out how to construct the HotJob Custom HTTP X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature value? If anyone can point out my mistake, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

HTTP Custom Header

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:17:09 -0700

QUOTE (Edward L @ Apr 17 2009, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I am getting HotJob Status Code 12 (Invalid Signature) returned from my job post.

The following is my test Java program:

Is there any sample Java program out there that can illustrate out how to construct the HotJob Custom HTTP X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature value? If anyone can point out my mistake, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks.

I'm using C#, so I don't know about Java samples. However, I was getting the same errors until I converted my MD5 hashes to lowercase hex. If that alone doesn't do the trick, try using an online md5 hash calculator to see if your hashes match.

Matt

HTTP Custom Header

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:17:09 -0700

QUOTE (etteuhcsttam @ Apr 20 2009, 01:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm using C#, so I don't know about Java samples. However, I was getting the same errors until I converted my MD5 hashes to lowercase hex. If that alone doesn't do the trick, try using an online md5 hash calculator to see if your hashes match.

Matt

Hi etteuhcsttam:

Could you post your C# sample for us to get an idea how to construct the signature? I would greatly appreciate it.

HTTP Custom Header

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:17:09 -0700

QUOTE (Edward L @ Apr 22 2009, 07:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi etteuhcsttam:

Could you post your C# sample for us to get an idea how to construct the signature? I would greatly appreciate it.

Sure, here are the two overloads I use. The main method takes a searchId, which corresponds to either SearchId for the Resume Search, Modify Search or Search Results; or ResumeId (Resumes/Resume/id is the xpath based on the XML Search Results returns) for View Resume. Search Results and View Resume pass string.Empty for xmlRequest.

CODE

        private string GetAuthSignature(string xmlRequest, long timestamp)
        {
            return GetAuthSignature(xmlRequest, timestamp, string.Empty);
        }

        private string GetAuthSignature(string xmlRequest, long timestamp, string searchId)
        {
            string ret = string.Empty;

            try
            {
                if (searchId == null) searchId = string.Empty;

                string sig = string.Format("{0}{1}{2}{3}{4}", xmlRequest, timestamp.ToString(), searchId,
                    m_AuthToken, m_LicenseKey);
                byte[] sigBytes = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sig);

                MD5CryptoServiceProvider csp = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
                byte[] md5Bytes = csp.ComputeHash(sigBytes);

                // NOTE: The MD5 hash is apparently case-sensitive, as this fails Y! authentication without 
                //       the ToLower().
                ret = BitConverter.ToString(md5Bytes).Replace("-", string.Empty).ToLower();
            }
            catch { }

            return ret;
        }

Also, instead of BitConverter many MD5 hash examples show a for loop over the byte array that appends to a StringBuilder. This works too, as long as you use .ToString("x2"), and NOT .ToString("X2"). The case of the 'x' is the only difference.

Hope this helps!

Matt

HTTP Custom Header

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:17:09 -0700

Thanks for your example. I am still getting the following returned back to me:

CODE

HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:32:05 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
Cache-Control: private
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8

17d    
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<yahoo:error xmlns="http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/schema.rng" xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" xml:lang="en-US">
<yahoo:description>Invalid Signature</yahoo:description>
<yahoo:detail>
<ErrorCode>12</ErrorCode>
</yahoo:detail>
</yahoo:error>
<!-- atsweb01.hj.re3.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Mon Jun  8 03:32:05 PDT 2009 -->

0

Does anyone have a sample java program that you can post for us all? It will be greatly appreciated.

HTTP Custom Header

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:17:09 -0700

Finally I got something working in Java. I have been doing something else and this project became low priority. With the help of HJ engineer (Amit) we got it going and the following is the source code to my test program and I hope it will help you all now and in the future. The job example was cut-n-paste from http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/job_pos...e/job-post.html

CODE

package test.hotjob;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

public class HotJobTest
{
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_ACCOUNT ="1-XXXXXX";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_USERNAME="xxxxxxxxx@xmail.com";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_PASSWORD="xxxxxxxxxxxx";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_LICENSE ="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_AUTHURL ="https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_JOBSURL ="http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Jobs";


    private static String REQUEST_AUTH=""
    + "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n"
    + "<atom:feed xmlns:yheader=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0\"\n"
    + " xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"\n"
    + " xmlns:yjob=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0\"\n"
    + " xmlns:ycontrol=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0\">\n"
    + " <yheader:Credential>\n"
    + " <yheader:Login>"+DEFAULT_USERNAME+"</yheader:Login>\n"
    + " <yheader:Password>"+DEFAULT_PASSWORD+"</yheader:Password> \n"
    + " <yheader:Version>3.0</yheader:Version>\n"
    + " <yheader:LicenseKey>"+DEFAULT_LICENSE+"</yheader:LicenseKey>\n"
    + " </yheader:Credential>\n"
    + " <atom:id>"+DEFAULT_ACCOUNT+"</atom:id>\n"   //  Primary with recruiter to identify which account they represent.
    + "</atom:feed>\n";

    private static String REQUEST_POST=""
    +   "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n"
    +   "<atom:feed xmlns:yheader=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0\" xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\" xmlns:yjob=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0\" xmlns:ycontrol=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0\">\n"
    +   "    <yjob:ListingType>SLOT</yjob:ListingType>\n"
    +   "    <yjob:EmployerProfileId>PROFILE_ID</yjob:EmployerProfileId>\n"
    +   "    <atom:entry>\n"
    +   "        <ycontrol:Operation>POST</ycontrol:Operation>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Public>true</yjob:Public>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:PostDuration>30</yjob:PostDuration>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:BoldJobDuration>7</yjob:BoldJobDuration>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:CompanyConfidential>No</yjob:CompanyConfidential>\n"
    +   "        <atom:id>SWEngineer-SlotNew</atom:id>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:IoNumber>IONUM-00001</yjob:IoNumber>\n"
    +   "        <atom:title>Change-EDU/EXP</atom:title>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:EmployerName>HJTest</yjob:EmployerName>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:PartnerContact>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Name Type=\"Family\">Yahoo</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Name Type=\"Given\">HJ</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Phone Type=\"business\">5109360000</yjob:Phone>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Email Type=\"business\">sswami@yahoo-inc.com</yjob:Email>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:PartnerContact>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Municipality>New York</yjob:Municipality>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Region>NY</yjob:Region>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:PostalCode>10001</yjob:PostalCode>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Municipality>Sunnyvale</yjob:Municipality>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Region>CA</yjob:Region>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:PostalCode>94089</yjob:PostalCode>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Industry>MIS</yjob:Industry>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Function>MIS-SOFTW</yjob:Function>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:HireType>CONT</yjob:HireType>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Duration>PT</yjob:Duration>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Experience level=\"MID\">5-10</yjob:Experience>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Degree pref=\"0\">PHD</yjob:Degree>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:SalaryType>Salaried</yjob:SalaryType>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:SalaryFrom Currency=\"USD\">100000</yjob:SalaryFrom>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:SalaryTo Currency=\"USD\">120000</yjob:SalaryTo>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:AdditionalComp>Negotiable</yjob:AdditionalComp>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:DisplaySalary>true</yjob:DisplaySalary>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:TravelAmount>0</yjob:TravelAmount>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:EmploymentAuthorization>Yes</yjob:EmploymentAuthorization>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:HiringTest></yjob:HiringTest>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:ApplyType>O</yjob:ApplyType>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:ApplySettings>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyContact>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Name type=\"First\">First Name</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Name type=\"Last\">Last Name</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Phone type=\"business\">111-111-1111</yjob:Phone>\n"
    +   "            </yjob:ApplyContact>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyFax>714-111-2222</yjob:ApplyFax>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyURL>http://abc.com</yjob:ApplyURL>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyEmail>bhaskarr@yahoo-inc.com</yjob:ApplyEmail>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyAddress>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:AddressLine>123 333rd Street</yjob:AddressLine>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:AddressLine>5th floor</yjob:AddressLine>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Municipality>Oakland</yjob:Municipality>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Region>CA</yjob:Region>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:PostalCode>94089</yjob:PostalCode>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>\n"
    +   "            </yjob:ApplyAddress>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:ApplySettings>\n"
    +   "        <atom:summary type=\"text\">SHORT DESCRIPTION</atom:summary>\n"
    +   "        <atom:content type=\"html\">LONG DESCRIPTION</atom:content>\n"
    +   "    </atom:entry>\n"
    +   "</atom:feed>"
   ;

    protected String requestHotJobAuth()
    {
        StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();

        try
        {
            URL url = new URL(  DEFAULT_AUTHURL    );
            HttpURLConnection   conn=(HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            if( conn instanceof HttpURLConnection )
                ((HttpURLConnection )conn).setRequestMethod( "POST" );

            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type"  ,"text/xml; charset=utf-8" );
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString( REQUEST_AUTH.length()));

            conn.setDoOutput( true );
            conn.setDoInput( true );

            // Write the request out to the URL.
            OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
            out.write( REQUEST_AUTH.getBytes() );
            out.flush();
            out.close();

            // Read the response from the URL.
            InputStreamReader   isr=null;
            // Read the stream
            if (conn.getResponseCode() >= 400)
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getErrorStream());  //  VIP if not you cant read the returned response!
            else
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream());

            BufferedReader      br =new BufferedReader( isr );

            for( String ln=""; ln != null; ln = br.readLine() )
            {
                sb.append( ln.replaceAll("<" ,"<" )
                             .replaceAll(">" ,">" )
                             .replaceAll("&" ,"&" )
                             .replaceAll(""" ,"\"" )
                );
            }
            br.close();
        }
        catch( MalformedURLException mux )
        {
            System.out.print("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_AUTHURL+ " is malformed!");
        }
        catch( IOException iox )
        {
            System.out.println( iox.getMessage());
            System.out.print("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_AUTHURL+ " is NOT reachable!");
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    //  To convert a byte array to hexadecimal.
    private static  String  tosignatureHex( byte bytes[] )
    {
        StringBuffer    signatureHex=new StringBuffer();

        for(int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++ )
        {
            String hex = Integer.toHexString(0xFF & bytes[i]);
            if (hex.length() == 1)
                signatureHex.append('0');

            signatureHex.append(hex);
        }

        return  signatureHex.toString();
    }

    protected String postToHotJob()
    {
        long            tStamp  =     System.currentTimeMillis();
        StringBuilder   sb      = new StringBuilder();

        String          response=     requestHotJobAuth();  //  Get authorized.
        String          token   =     response.substring( response.indexOf("<Token>")+7, response.indexOf("</Token>")); //  Extract out the returned token.
System.out.println("AuthResp----\n" +response);
System.out.println("Token----\n"  +token);

        URL url;
        HttpURLConnection conn;

        try
        {
            MessageDigest   algorithm=    MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
            StringBuffer    signatureHex=new StringBuffer();

            algorithm.reset();
System.out.println( (REQUEST_POST +Long.toString(tStamp) +token +DEFAULT_LICENSE) );
            algorithm.update(   (REQUEST_POST +Long.toString(tStamp) +token +DEFAULT_LICENSE).getBytes() );
            byte msgDigest[]= algorithm.digest();

            signatureHex.append( tosignatureHex(msgDigest) );

            url = new URL(  DEFAULT_JOBSURL    );
            conn=(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

            if( conn instanceof HttpURLConnection )
                ((HttpURLConnection )conn).setRequestMethod( "POST" );

            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type"              ,"text/xml; charset=utf-8"  );
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length"            ,Integer.toString( REQUEST_POST.length()));
            conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token"      ,token                      );
            System.out.println(     "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token: "    +token                      );
            conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp"  ,Long.toString(tStamp)      );
            System.out.println(     "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp: "+Long.toString(tStamp)      );
            conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature"  ,signatureHex.toString()    );
            System.out.println(     "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature: "+signatureHex.toString()    );

            conn.setDoOutput( true );
            conn.setDoInput(  true );

            // Write the request out to the URL.
            OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
            out.write( REQUEST_POST.getBytes() );
            out.flush();
            out.close();
            System.out.println("\nResponse Code:" + conn.getResponseCode());

            // Read the response from the URL.
            InputStreamReader   isr=null;
            // Read the stream
            if (conn.getResponseCode() >= 400)
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getErrorStream());  //  VIP if not you cant read the returned response!
            else
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream());

            BufferedReader      br =new BufferedReader( isr );

            for( String ln=""; ln != null; ln = br.readLine() )
            {
                sb.append( ln.replaceAll("<" ,"<" )
                             .replaceAll(">" ,">" )
                             .replaceAll("&" ,"&" )
                             .replaceAll(""" ,"\"" )
                );
            }
            System.out.println( sb.toString() );
            br.close();
        }
        catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException nax)
        {
            System.out.print("ERROR: Could not instantiate MD5 message digest!");
        }
        catch( MalformedURLException mux )
        {
            System.out.print("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_JOBSURL+ " is malformed!");
        }
        catch( IOException iox )
        {
            System.out.println( iox.getMessage() );
            System.out.println("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_JOBSURL+ " is NOT reachable!");
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        HotJobTest hjTest = new HotJobTest();

        System.out.println( hjtest.postToHotJob().replace("><" ,">\n<") );
    }
}

And the following is the result returned back to me.

CODE

AuthResp----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Response><ResponseCode>0</ResponseCode><ResponseMessage>Login successful</ResponseMessage><Token>NTlEM0ZBMkQ5QjRGOTE5OEI0NjQ3Mjg0ODY0QzA3NkQ7c2Vzc2lvbjAxLmhqLnJlMy55YWhvby5j
b207dFNrZElxRkl3YWdodFVJRkhIb0xhNHNVRFJxZHlQTDBUZTRXR21waW1Idk9xcGR3VXctLTs3MTQ1
M
Dc7MzU5Mjk2OzEyNDgyMzc2MTg7ZUV3S21nQVFBN0p5WVBReU1GdDRKZy0t</Token></Response><!-- atsweb01.hj.re3.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Tue Jul 21 21:40:17 PDT 2009 -->
Token----
NTlEM0ZBMkQ5QjRGOTE5OEI0NjQ3Mjg0ODY0QzA3NkQ7c2Vzc2lvbjAxLmhqLnJlMy55YWhvby5jb207
dFNrZElxRkl3YWdodFVJRkhIb0xhNHNVRFJxZHlQTDBUZTRXR21waW1Idk9xcGR3VXctLTs3MTQ1MDc7
M
zU5Mjk2OzEyNDgyMzc2MTg7ZUV3S21nQVFBN0p5WVBReU1GdDRKZy0t
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<atom:feed xmlns:yheader="http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:yjob="http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0" xmlns:ycontrol="http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0">
    <yjob:ListingType>SLOT</yjob:ListingType>
    <yjob:EmployerProfileId>PROFILE_ID</yjob:EmployerProfileId>
    <atom:entry>
        <ycontrol:Operation>POST</ycontrol:Operation>
        <yjob:Public>true</yjob:Public>
        <yjob:PostDuration>30</yjob:PostDuration>
        <yjob:BoldJobDuration>7</yjob:BoldJobDuration>
        <yjob:CompanyConfidential>No</yjob:CompanyConfidential>
        <atom:id>SWEngineer-SlotNew</atom:id>
        <yjob:IoNumber>IONUM-00001</yjob:IoNumber>
        <atom:title>Change-EDU/EXP</atom:title>
        <yjob:EmployerName>HJTest</yjob:EmployerName>
        <yjob:PartnerContact>
            <yjob:Name Type="Family">Yahoo</yjob:Name>
            <yjob:Name Type="Given">HJ</yjob:Name>
            <yjob:Phone Type="business">5109360000</yjob:Phone>
            <yjob:Email Type="business">sswami@yahoo-inc.com</yjob:Email>
        </yjob:PartnerContact>
        <yjob:Location>
            <yjob:Municipality>New York</yjob:Municipality>
            <yjob:Region>NY</yjob:Region>
            <yjob:PostalCode>10001</yjob:PostalCode>
            <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>
        </yjob:Location>
        <yjob:Location>
            <yjob:Municipality>Sunnyvale</yjob:Municipality>
            <yjob:Region>CA</yjob:Region>
            <yjob:PostalCode>94089</yjob:PostalCode>
            <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>
        </yjob:Location>
        <yjob:Industry>MIS</yjob:Industry>
        <yjob:Function>MIS-SOFTW</yjob:Function>
        <yjob:HireType>CONT</yjob:HireType>
        <yjob:Duration>PT</yjob:Duration>
        <yjob:Experience level="MID">5-10</yjob:Experience>
        <yjob:Degree pref="0">PHD</yjob:Degree>
        <yjob:SalaryType>Salaried</yjob:SalaryType>
        <yjob:SalaryFrom Currency="USD">100000</yjob:SalaryFrom>
        <yjob:SalaryTo Currency="USD">120000</yjob:SalaryTo>
        <yjob:AdditionalComp>Negotiable</yjob:AdditionalComp>
        <yjob:DisplaySalary>true</yjob:DisplaySalary>
        <yjob:TravelAmount>0</yjob:TravelAmount>
        <yjob:EmploymentAuthorization>Yes</yjob:EmploymentAuthorization>
        <yjob:HiringTest></yjob:HiringTest>
        <yjob:ApplyType>O</yjob:ApplyType>
        <yjob:ApplySettings>
            <yjob:ApplyContact>
                <yjob:Name type="First">First Name</yjob:Name>
                <yjob:Name type="Last">Last Name</yjob:Name>
                <yjob:Phone type="business">111-111-1111</yjob:Phone>
            </yjob:ApplyContact>
            <yjob:ApplyFax>714-111-2222</yjob:ApplyFax>
            <yjob:ApplyURL>http://abc.com</yjob:ApplyURL>
            <yjob:ApplyEmail>bhaskarr@yahoo-inc.com</yjob:ApplyEmail>
            <yjob:ApplyAddress>
                <yjob:AddressLine>123 333rd Street</yjob:AddressLine>
                <yjob:AddressLine>5th floor</yjob:AddressLine>
                <yjob:Municipality>Oakland</yjob:Municipality>
                <yjob:Region>CA</yjob:Region>
                <yjob:PostalCode>94089</yjob:PostalCode>
                <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>
            </yjob:ApplyAddress>
        </yjob:ApplySettings>
        <atom:summary type="text">SHORT DESCRIPTION</atom:summary>
        <atom:content type="html">LONG DESCRIPTION</atom:content>
    </atom:entry>
</atom:feed>1248237616765NTlEM0ZBMkQ5QjRGOTE5OEI0NjQ3Mjg0ODY0QzA3NkQ7c2Vzc2lvbjAxLmhqLnJ
lMy55YWhvby5jb207dFNrZElxRkl3YWdodFVJRkhIb0xhNHNVRFJxZHlQTDBUZTRXR21waW1Idk9xcGR
3
VXctLTs3MTQ1MDc7MzU5Mjk2OzEyNDgyMzc2MTg7ZUV3S21nQVFBN0p5WVBReU1GdDRKZy0tdcb765f4
6
e23fb4934d76827c1bd7e52
X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token: NTlEM0ZBMkQ5QjRGOTE5OEI0NjQ3Mjg0ODY0QzA3NkQ7c2Vzc2lvbjAxLmhqLnJlMy55YWhvby5jb207
dFNrZElxRkl3YWdodFVJRkhIb0xhNHNVRFJxZHlQTDBUZTRXR21waW1Idk9xcGR3VXctLTs3MTQ1MDc7
M
zU5Mjk2OzEyNDgyMzc2MTg7ZUV3S21nQVFBN0p5WVBReU1GdDRKZy0t
X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp: 1248237616765
X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature: f1d819b4da12880e7eed60229127e373

Response Code:201
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Response><ResponseCode>0</ResponseCode><ResponseMessage>Operation successful</ResponseMessage><Operation>Job Posted</Operation><HJInternalJobId>JVJKGKO5J5W</HJInternalJobId><IONumber>IONUM-00001</IONumber><JobID>SWEngineer-SlotNew</JobID><JobStatus>Posted</JobStatus><JobURL>http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-JVJKGKO5J5W</JobURL><JobExpiryTime>11/09/20 15:59</JobExpiryTime><AssetConsumed><AssetName>JobSlot</AssetName><AssetID>510296</AssetID><CreditsConsumed>1</CreditsConsumed></AssetConsumed></Response><!-- atsweb02.hj.re3.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Tue Jul 21 21:40:19 PDT 2009 -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Response>
<ResponseCode>0</ResponseCode>
<ResponseMessage>Operation successful</ResponseMessage>
<Operation>Job Posted</Operation>
<HJInternalJobId>JVJKGKO5J5W</HJInternalJobId>
<IONumber>IONUM-00001</IONumber>
<JobID>SWEngineer-SlotNew</JobID>
<JobStatus>Posted</JobStatus>
<JobURL>http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-JVJKGKO5J5W</JobURL>
<JobExpiryTime>11/09/20 15:59</JobExpiryTime>
<AssetConsumed>
<AssetName>JobSlot</AssetName>
<AssetID>510296</AssetID>
<CreditsConsumed>1</CreditsConsumed>
</AssetConsumed>
</Response>
<!-- atsweb02.hj.re3.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Tue Jul 21 21:40:19 PDT 2009 -->

Remember that credentials are munged so you have to substitute it with yours.

HTTP Custom Header

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:17:09 -0700

Oops! used the wrong code tag. Here is the source code.

CODE

package test.hotjob;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

public class HotJobTest
{
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_ACCOUNT ="1-XXXXXX";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_USERNAME="xxxxxxxxx@xmail.com";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_PASSWORD="xxxxxxxxxxxx";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_LICENSE ="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_AUTHURL ="https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens";
    private static  final   String  DEFAULT_JOBSURL ="http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Jobs";


    private static String REQUEST_AUTH=""
    + "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n"
    + "<atom:feed xmlns:yheader=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0\"\n"
    + " xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"\n"
    + " xmlns:yjob=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0\"\n"
    + " xmlns:ycontrol=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0\">\n"
    + " <yheader:Credential>\n"
    + " <yheader:Login>"+DEFAULT_USERNAME+"</yheader:Login>\n"
    + " <yheader:Password>"+DEFAULT_PASSWORD+"</yheader:Password> \n"
    + " <yheader:Version>3.0</yheader:Version>\n"
    + " <yheader:LicenseKey>"+DEFAULT_LICENSE+"</yheader:LicenseKey>\n"
    + " </yheader:Credential>\n"
    + " <atom:id>"+DEFAULT_ACCOUNT+"</atom:id>\n"   //  Primary with recruiter to identify which account they represent.
    + "</atom:feed>\n";

    private static String REQUEST_POST=""
    +   "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n"
    +   "<atom:feed xmlns:yheader=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0\" xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\" xmlns:yjob=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0\" xmlns:ycontrol=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0\">\n"
    +   "    <yjob:ListingType>SLOT</yjob:ListingType>\n"
    +   "    <yjob:EmployerProfileId>PROFILE_ID</yjob:EmployerProfileId>\n"
    +   "    <atom:entry>\n"
    +   "        <ycontrol:Operation>POST</ycontrol:Operation>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Public>true</yjob:Public>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:PostDuration>30</yjob:PostDuration>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:BoldJobDuration>7</yjob:BoldJobDuration>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:CompanyConfidential>No</yjob:CompanyConfidential>\n"
    +   "        <atom:id>SWEngineer-SlotNew</atom:id>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:IoNumber>IONUM-00001</yjob:IoNumber>\n"
    +   "        <atom:title>Change-EDU/EXP</atom:title>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:EmployerName>HJTest</yjob:EmployerName>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:PartnerContact>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Name Type=\"Family\">Yahoo</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Name Type=\"Given\">HJ</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Phone Type=\"business\">5109360000</yjob:Phone>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Email Type=\"business\">sswami@yahoo-inc.com</yjob:Email>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:PartnerContact>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Municipality>New York</yjob:Municipality>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Region>NY</yjob:Region>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:PostalCode>10001</yjob:PostalCode>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Municipality>Sunnyvale</yjob:Municipality>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:Region>CA</yjob:Region>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:PostalCode>94089</yjob:PostalCode>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:Location>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Industry>MIS</yjob:Industry>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Function>MIS-SOFTW</yjob:Function>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:HireType>CONT</yjob:HireType>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Duration>PT</yjob:Duration>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Experience level=\"MID\">5-10</yjob:Experience>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:Degree pref=\"0\">PHD</yjob:Degree>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:SalaryType>Salaried</yjob:SalaryType>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:SalaryFrom Currency=\"USD\">100000</yjob:SalaryFrom>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:SalaryTo Currency=\"USD\">120000</yjob:SalaryTo>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:AdditionalComp>Negotiable</yjob:AdditionalComp>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:DisplaySalary>true</yjob:DisplaySalary>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:TravelAmount>0</yjob:TravelAmount>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:EmploymentAuthorization>Yes</yjob:EmploymentAuthorization>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:HiringTest></yjob:HiringTest>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:ApplyType>O</yjob:ApplyType>\n"
    +   "        <yjob:ApplySettings>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyContact>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Name type=\"First\">First Name</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Name type=\"Last\">Last Name</yjob:Name>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Phone type=\"business\">111-111-1111</yjob:Phone>\n"
    +   "            </yjob:ApplyContact>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyFax>714-111-2222</yjob:ApplyFax>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyURL>http://abc.com</yjob:ApplyURL>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyEmail>bhaskarr@yahoo-inc.com</yjob:ApplyEmail>\n"
    +   "            <yjob:ApplyAddress>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:AddressLine>123 333rd Street</yjob:AddressLine>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:AddressLine>5th floor</yjob:AddressLine>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Municipality>Oakland</yjob:Municipality>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:Region>CA</yjob:Region>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:PostalCode>94089</yjob:PostalCode>\n"
    +   "                <yjob:CountryCode>USA</yjob:CountryCode>\n"
    +   "            </yjob:ApplyAddress>\n"
    +   "        </yjob:ApplySettings>\n"
    +   "        <atom:summary type=\"text\">SHORT DESCRIPTION</atom:summary>\n"
    +   "        <atom:content type=\"html\">LONG DESCRIPTION</atom:content>\n"
    +   "    </atom:entry>\n"
    +   "</atom:feed>"
   ;

    protected String requestHotJobAuth()
    {
        StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();

        try
        {
            URL url = new URL(  DEFAULT_AUTHURL    );
            HttpURLConnection   conn=(HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            if( conn instanceof HttpURLConnection )
                ((HttpURLConnection )conn).setRequestMethod( "POST" );

            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type"  ,"text/xml; charset=utf-8" );
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString( REQUEST_AUTH.length()));

            conn.setDoOutput( true );
            conn.setDoInput( true );

            // Write the request out to the URL.
            OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
            out.write( REQUEST_AUTH.getBytes() );
            out.flush();
            out.close();

            // Read the response from the URL.
            InputStreamReader   isr=null;
            // Read the stream
            if (conn.getResponseCode() >= 400)
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getErrorStream());  //  VIP if not you cant read the returned response!
            else
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream());

            BufferedReader      br =new BufferedReader( isr );

            for( String ln=""; ln != null; ln = br.readLine() )
            {
                sb.append( ln.replaceAll("<" ,"<" )
                             .replaceAll(">" ,">" )
                             .replaceAll("&" ,"&" )
                             .replaceAll(""" ,"\"" )
                );
            }
            br.close();
        }
        catch( MalformedURLException mux )
        {
            System.out.print("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_AUTHURL+ " is malformed!");
        }
        catch( IOException iox )
        {
            System.out.println( iox.getMessage());
            System.out.print("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_AUTHURL+ " is NOT reachable!");
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    //  To convert a byte array to hexadecimal.
    private static  String  tosignatureHex( byte bytes[] )
    {
        StringBuffer    signatureHex=new StringBuffer();

        for(int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++ )
        {
            String hex = Integer.toHexString(0xFF & bytes[i]);
            if (hex.length() == 1)
                signatureHex.append('0');

            signatureHex.append(hex);
        }

        return  signatureHex.toString();
    }

    protected String postToHotJob()
    {
        long            tStamp  =     System.currentTimeMillis();
        StringBuilder   sb      = new StringBuilder();

        String          response=     requestHotJobAuth();  //  Get authorized.
        String          token   =     response.substring( response.indexOf("<Token>")+7, response.indexOf("</Token>")); //  Extract out the returned token.
System.out.println("AuthResp----\n" +response);
System.out.println("Token----\n"  +token);

        URL url;
        HttpURLConnection conn;

        try
        {
            MessageDigest   algorithm=    MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
            StringBuffer    signatureHex=new StringBuffer();

            algorithm.reset();
System.out.println( (REQUEST_POST +Long.toString(tStamp) +token +DEFAULT_LICENSE) );
            algorithm.update(   (REQUEST_POST +Long.toString(tStamp) +token +DEFAULT_LICENSE).getBytes() );
            byte msgDigest[]= algorithm.digest();

            signatureHex.append( tosignatureHex(msgDigest) );

            url = new URL(  DEFAULT_JOBSURL    );
            conn=(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

            if( conn instanceof HttpURLConnection )
                ((HttpURLConnection )conn).setRequestMethod( "POST" );

            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type"              ,"text/xml; charset=utf-8"  );
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length"            ,Integer.toString( REQUEST_POST.length()));
            conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token"      ,token                      );
            System.out.println(     "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token: "    +token                      );
            conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp"  ,Long.toString(tStamp)      );
            System.out.println(     "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp: "+Long.toString(tStamp)      );
            conn.setRequestProperty("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature"  ,signatureHex.toString()    );
            System.out.println(     "X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature: "+signatureHex.toString()    );

            conn.setDoOutput( true );
            conn.setDoInput(  true );

            // Write the request out to the URL.
            OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
            out.write( REQUEST_POST.getBytes() );
            out.flush();
            out.close();
            System.out.println("\nResponse Code:" + conn.getResponseCode());

            // Read the response from the URL.
            InputStreamReader   isr=null;
            // Read the stream
            if (conn.getResponseCode() >= 400)
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getErrorStream());  //  VIP if not you cant read the returned response!
            else
                isr=new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream());

            BufferedReader      br =new BufferedReader( isr );

            for( String ln=""; ln != null; ln = br.readLine() )
            {
                sb.append( ln.replaceAll("<" ,"<" )
                             .replaceAll(">" ,">" )
                             .replaceAll("&" ,"&" )
                             .replaceAll(""" ,"\"" )
                );
            }
            System.out.println( sb.toString() );
            br.close();
        }
        catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException nax)
        {
            System.out.print("ERROR: Could not instantiate MD5 message digest!");
        }
        catch( MalformedURLException mux )
        {
            System.out.print("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_JOBSURL+ " is malformed!");
        }
        catch( IOException iox )
        {
            System.out.println( iox.getMessage() );
            System.out.println("ERROR: " +DEFAULT_JOBSURL+ " is NOT reachable!");
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        HotJobTest hjTest = new HotJobTest();

        System.out.println( hjtest.postToHotJob().replace("><" ,">\n<") );
    }
}

Looping through search results - issue with view resume

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:29:11 -0700

I am working with asp.net 2.0 code and can get everything to work but now have an issue with looping through all the results. I have it set to look through the results 20 at a time. I can see all 20 of the resumes from the first result fine. When I do my second loop (get next 20 resumes) I get a timeout error when I try to view the first resume. It calls the url but I way for I would say 30 - 60 seconds before sending the error.

Below is an example of how the process happens.

1) Yahoo Authorization - https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens
2) Grab Token from returned xml
3) Resume Search: http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilters
4) Search Results URL: http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilter/ab...tart=1;count=20
4a) View Resume 1 http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Resume/MzMx....
4b) View Resume 2 http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Resume/MzA5....
4c) View Resume 3 http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Resume/MTI3....
4d) View Resume 4 http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Resume/MTYy....
4e) View Resume 5 http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Resume/MzY1....
... all the way until 20 resumes have been viewed
5) Search Results http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilter/ab...art=21;count=20
6) Try to View Resume URL: http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/Resume/MzA2....

Error returned is:
System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at CandidateFeedFinder.WebPost.Request(String sPOSTData, Boolean bAutoRedirect, Hashtable hshHeader) in C:\...WebPost.vb:line 110

Anyone seen this before? Any advice would help greatly. Thanks.

XML Request in Search Results and View Resume query

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:58:33 -0700

Search Results (http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...sumeSearch.html) and View Resume (http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...viewResume.html) require to pass in the header 'X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature' with the first part of the signature being the XML request. Is this the same XML Request created and sent in the Resume Search (http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...sumeSearch.html)? Or do we need to create a new xml request? Or is it blank for this?

XML Request in Search Results and View Resume query

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:58:33 -0700

QUOTE (lleemon @ Mar 27 2009, 05:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Search Results (http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...sumeSearch.html) and View Resume (http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...viewResume.html) require to pass in the header 'X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature' with the first part of the signature being the XML request. Is this the same XML Request created and sent in the Resume Search (http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...sumeSearch.html)? Or do we need to create a new xml request? Or is it blank for this?

Figured the answer. Do not pass the xml request data, at least in the Search Results.

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

Hi Folks:

I am newbies at these APIs. I am learning to use the HotJob Authetication API by write a small static HTML page as follows:

Post to <a href="https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens" rel="nofollow" target="ext">https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens

In the above my login/password/licence are been munged for this posting. When I click the submit button to post the XML to the following URL: https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens ... I got the following error back:

Invalid XML

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The XML was validated at http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_validator.asp and it found no errors.

If anyone could give me some help, that's greatly appreciated.

Thx.

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

This is what was received in the POST request:

Job=%3C%3Fxml+version%3D%221.0%22+encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22+standalone%3D%22yes%22%3F%3E%0D%0A%3Catom%3Afeed+xmlns%3Ayheader%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.yahoo.com%2Fypost%2FjobsHeader%2F3.0%22%0D%0Axmlns%3Aatom%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2005%2FAtom%22%0D%0Axmlns%3Ayjob%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.yahoo.com%2Fypost%2Fjobs%2F3.0%22%0D%0Axmlns%3Aycontrol%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.yahoo.com%2Fypost%2Fcontrol%2F1.0%22%3E%0D%0A%3Cyheader%3ACredential%3E%0D%0A%3Cyheader%3ALogin%3Emylogin@gmail.com%3C%2Fyheader%3ALogin%3E%0D%0A%3Cyheader%3APassword%3EmyPassword%3C%2Fyheader%3APassword%3E%0D%0A%3Cyheader%3AVersion%3E3.0%3C%2Fyheader%3AVersion%3E%0D%0A%3Cyheader%3ALicenseKey%3Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3C%2Fyheader%3ALicenseKey%3E%0D%0A%3C%2Fyheader%3ACredential%3E%0D%0A%3C%2Fatom%3Afeed%3E%0D%0A

The POST request should not contain Job=; instead it should contain only and that should not be URL encoded.

Thanks
--
Amit Rawat

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

Thanks for your reply.

The HTML was a quick test to see what was sent up and receive by HotJobs. Next, I will try writing a java program to stream a message over. Do you have a sample J2SE 5 example to accomplish the same? It sure can expedite my implementation.

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

Before I try diving into and learning java I tried with the Linux "curl" with the following xml in a file called hotjob-authreq.txt:

QUOTE

xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:yjob="http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0"
xmlns:ycontrol="http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0">

myLogin@gmail.com
myPassword
3.0
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The command I used is curl -vd @hotjob-authreq.txt https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens and the following is the trace:

QUOTE

* About to connect() to hj.yahooapis.com port 443
* Trying 66.196.122.16... connected
* Connected to hj.yahooapis.com (66.196.122.16) port 443
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
* SSLv2, Client hello (1):
SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
SSL connection using DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
* Server certificate:
* subject: /C=US/ST=California/L=Santa Clara/O=Yahoo! Inc./OU=Yahoo/CN=hj.yahooapis.com
* start date: 2008-05-09 17:21:09 GMT
* expire date: 2009-05-10 17:21:09 GMT
* common name: hj.yahooapis.com (matched)
* issuer: /C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
* SSL certificate verify ok.
> POST /v1/HJAuthTokens HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
> Host: hj.yahooapis.com
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 611
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
> myLogin@gmail.com myPassword 3.0 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:43:01 GMT
< P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
< Cache-Control: private
< Connection: close
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8

Invalid XML

30

* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):

Could anyone point out to me what I am missing? Does anyone have an example of how to get authenticate with Hot Jobs?

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

QUOTE (Edward L @ Mar 31 2009, 07:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Before I try diving into and learning java I tried with the Linux "curl" with the following xml in a file called hotjob-authreq.txt:

The command I used is curl -vd @hotjob-authreq.txt https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens and the following is the trace:

Could anyone point out to me what I am missing? Does anyone have an example of how to get authenticate with Hot Jobs?

Hi Edward,
it is indeed an invalid xml. yheader:Credential tag is not closed properly. Second last line should be:

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

QUOTE (Amit R @ Apr 2 2009, 05:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Edward,
it is indeed an invalid xml. yheader:Credential tag is not closed properly. Second last line should be:

Thanks Amit. Greatly appreciated!!!

It did work after I corrected my closing tag. Is there a test page like with Monster.com (http://xml.monster.com/MonsterWebServiceToolkit/webservicetest.aspx) ?

The result I got back from the curl utility is as follows:

QUOTE

< Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:36:13 GMT
< P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
< Location: http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthToken/NTl...HBhdXRlU2NZQS0t
< Content-Location: http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthToken/NTl...HBhdXRlU2NZQS0t
< Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:36:14 GMT
< Cache-Control: private
< Connection: close
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Content-Type: application/xml;charset=utf-8

0
Login successful
NTlEMzY0MEY3OUExM0QwMkVFNTMwNjk3MUYwNzhGNjQ7c2Vzc2lvbjAyLmhqLnJlMy55YWhvby5jb
207dFNrZElxRkl3YWdodFVJRkhIb0xhNHNVRFJxZHlQTDBUZTRXR21waW1Idk9xcGR3VXctLTs3MzUwM
T
k7MzU5Mjk2OzEyMzg3MDQ1NzQ7QkJCaEguR2RSaFQzVHBhdXRlU2NZQS0t

* Closing connection #0
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):

I hope this exercise will serve as a "documentation" to all other folks that out there. Now moving on to the next API call to post a job. I hope it will be smoother.

Thanks.

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

Hi Folks:

Took me awhile to write this test Java program. It is NOT dependent on any external libraries. This is straight J2SE 1.5 and could serve as an example to other folks out there. The login information have been munged and you need to replace it with yours.

QUOTE

package test.HotJob;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class HotJobAuth
{
private static String REQUEST_AUTH=""
+ "\n"
+ " + " xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"\n"
+ " xmlns:yjob=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0\"\n"
+ " xmlns:ycontrol=\"http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0\">\n"
+ " \n"
+ " myLogin\n"
+ " myPassword \n"
+ " 3.0\n"
+ " myLicenseKey\n"
+ " \n"
// + " 1-EVWGO\n"
+ "\n";

protected String requestHotJobAuth()
{
StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();

try
{
URL url = new URL( "https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens" );
URLConnection conn= url.openConnection();

if( conn instanceof HttpURLConnection )
((HttpURLConnection )conn).setRequestMethod( "POST" );

conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type" ,"text/xml; charset=utf-8" );
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString( REQUEST_AUTH.length()));

conn.setDoOutput( true );
conn.setDoInput( true );

// Write the request out to the URL.
OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
out.write( REQUEST_AUTH.getBytes() );
out.close();

// Read the response from the URL.
BufferedReader br =new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream() ));

for( String ln="" ; ln != null ; ln = br.readLine() )
{
sb.append( ln.replaceAll("<" ,"<" )
.replaceAll(">" ,">" )
.replaceAll("&" ,"&" )
.replaceAll(""" ,"\"" )
);
}
br.close();
}
catch( MalformedURLException mux )
{
System.out.print("ERROR: https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens is malformed!");
}
catch( IOException iox )
{
System.out.print("ERROR: https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens is NOT reachable!");
}

return sb.toString();
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
HotJobAuth hjAuth = new HotJobAuth();

System.out.println( hjAuth.requestHotJobAuth().replace("><" ,">\n<") );
}
}

The result I got back is:

QUOTE

0
Login successful
NTlERjhCMzhFRkM3ODhERTg0QUEwRDJFMTIwQ0FFQjQ7c2Vzc2lvbjAyLmhqLnJlMy55YWhvby5jb
207dFNrZElxRkl3YWdodFVJRkhIb0xhNHNVRFJxZHlQTDBUZTRXR21waW1Idk9xcGR3VXctLTs3MzUwM
T
k7MzU5Mjk2OzEyMzk5MTQ2ODE7Uzc2WXdJZ1RUSTdTVFpHRmdybWRoQS0t

Enjoy.

HotJob Authetication API

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:56:26 -0700

Do u really know computer programming?

QUOTE (Edward L @ Apr 16 2009, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Folks:

Took me awhile to write this test Java program. It is NOT dependent on any external libraries. This is straight J2SE 1.5 and could serve as an example to other folks out there. The login information have been munged and you need to replace it with yours.

The result I got back is:

Enjoy.

Resume Search API with asp.net help

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:56:18 -0700

I have created some asp.net code that logs in properly and gets a Token. I then try and pass new search information but get the following error:
The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.

The xml I am passing is:
KeywordsSASLocationBurnsvilleMN553065

Is there a way to test if:
1) I am passing the right info to Yahoo?
2) See if my md5 is generated properly?
3) Am I passing headers properly?

CODE

   Private Sub btnXML_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnXML.Click
        Dim sXML As String = ""
        Dim sRetVal As String = ""
        Dim sToken As String = ""
        Dim sLicenseKey As String = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"  '<--- PUT YOUR LicenseKey value here
        Dim sLogin As String = "name@domain.com"  '<--- PUT YOUR Login VALUE HERE
        Dim sPassword As String = "password"  '<-- PUT YOUR password VALUE HERE
        Dim sAccountID As String = "1-33XX-9999"  '<-- PUT YOUR AccountID VALUE HERE

        'Create Authentication XML to get Token
        sXML = fnYahooXMLLogin(sLicenseKey, sLogin, sPassword, sAccountID)

        Dim cYahoo As New WebPost

        'Yahoo Authorization
        cYahoo.URL = "https://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/HJAuthTokens"
        cYahoo.Referer = ""
        sRetVal = cYahoo.Request(sXML, True)

        'Take XML results and get Token value
        Dim xDoc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument
        xDoc.LoadXml(sRetVal)

        Dim xRoot As XmlNode = xDoc.DocumentElement
        sToken = xRoot.SelectSingleNode("Token").ChildNodes(0).Value

        'Start getting values to pass to search
        Dim sTimestamp As String = getUnixTimeStamp(Now()).ToString()
        Dim sYahooResumeRequest As String = fnYahooXMLSearch("SAS")
        Dim sYahooSignature As String = String.Format("{0}{1}{2}{3}{4}", sYahooResumeRequest, sTimestamp, "", sToken, sLicenseKey)

        'Create hashtable to store Yahoo headers
        Dim hshHeader As New Hashtable()
        hshHeader.Add("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Token", sToken)
        hshHeader.Add("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Timestamp", sTimestamp)
        hshHeader.Add("X-Yahoo-HJAuth-Signature", fnMD5Hash(sYahooSignature))

        'Pass values to Yahoo post
        cYahoo.URL = "http://hj.yahooapis.com/v1/ResumeFilters"
        cYahoo.Referer = ""
        sRetVal = cYahoo.Request(sYahooResumeRequest, True, hshHeader)
        txtSearchResults.Text = sRetVal

	'Return value is "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request."
    End Sub


#Region " getUnixTimeStamp "
    Public Shared Function getUnixTimeStamp(ByVal date_time_convert As Date) As Long
        Dim date_time_base As New DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)

        Dim span As TimeSpan = date_time_convert.ToUniversalTime() - date_time_base

        Return CLng(span.TotalSeconds)
    End Function
#End Region

#Region " fnMD5Hash "
    Function fnMD5Hash(ByVal sPwd As String) As String
        Dim inputPasswordBytes() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(sPwd)

        Dim hash() As Byte
        ' get hash
        Dim md5 As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
        hash = md5.ComputeHash(inputPasswordBytes)

        ' convert hash value to hex string
        Dim sOutput As String = ""
        Dim outputByte As Byte
        For Each outputByte In hash
            ' convert each byte to a Hexadecimal upper case string
            sOutput &= outputByte.ToString("x2")
        Next outputByte

        Return sOutput
    End Function
#End Region

#Region " fnYahooXMLSearch "
    Function fnYahooXMLSearch(ByVal sKeywords As String) As String
        Dim sOutput As String = ""

        Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
        settings.CheckCharacters = True
        settings.CloseOutput = True

        ' Create the XmlWriter object and write some content.
        Dim strm As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream()
        Dim writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(strm, settings)

        writer.WriteStartDocument(True)
        writer.WriteStartElement("SearchCriteria")

        writer.WriteStartElement("SearchCriterion")
        writer.WriteElementString("CriterionName", "Keywords")
        writer.WriteElementString("CriterionValue", sKeywords)
        writer.WriteEndElement()

        writer.WriteStartElement("SearchCriterion")
        writer.WriteElementString("CriterionName", "Location")

        writer.WriteStartElement("CriterionValue")
        writer.WriteStartElement("Location")
        writer.WriteElementString("Municipality", "Burnsville")
        writer.WriteElementString("Region", "MN")
        writer.WriteElementString("PostalCode", "55306")
        writer.WriteElementString("CountryCode", "")
        writer.WriteElementString("Radius", "5")
        writer.WriteEndElement()
        writer.WriteEndElement()
        writer.WriteEndElement()

        writer.WriteEndElement()
        writer.WriteEndDocument()
        writer.Flush()
        sOutput = GetStringFromMemoryStream(strm)
        writer.Close()

        Return sOutput
    End Function
#End Region

#Region " fnYahooXMLLogin "
    Function fnYahooXMLLogin(ByVal sLicenseKey As String, ByVal sLogin As String, ByVal sPassword As String, ByVal sAccountID As String) As String
        Dim sXML As String = ""

        Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
        settings.CheckCharacters = True
        settings.CloseOutput = True
        ' indent the output and insert line breaks
        'settings.Indent = True

        ' start each attribute on a new line
        'settings.NewLineOnAttributes = True

        ' Create the XmlWriter object and write some content.
        Dim strm As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream()
        Dim writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(strm, settings)

        writer.WriteStartDocument(True)
        writer.WriteComment("Created at " & DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss"))
        writer.WriteStartElement("atom", "feed", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")

        writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "yheader", Nothing, "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0")
        writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "atom", Nothing, "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom")
        writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "yjob", Nothing, "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobs/3.0")
        writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "ycontrol", Nothing, "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/control/1.0")

        writer.WriteStartElement("Credential", "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0")
        writer.WriteElementString("Login", "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0", sLogin)
        writer.WriteElementString("Password", "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0", sPassword)
        writer.WriteElementString("Version", "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0", "3.0")
        writer.WriteElementString("LicenseKey", "http://schemas.yahoo.com/ypost/jobsHeader/3.0", sLicenseKey)
        writer.WriteEndElement()
        writer.WriteComment("Account ID. Required if the user is a member of multiple accounts")

        'writer.WriteElementString(SecurityElement.Escape("atom:id"), "1-12PF-1280")
        writer.WriteElementString("id", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom", sAccountID)
        writer.WriteEndElement()
        writer.WriteEndDocument()
        writer.Flush()
        sXML = GetStringFromMemoryStream(strm)
        writer.Close()

        Return sXML
    End Function
#End Region

'-------------------------------------------------------
' WebPost.vb
'-------------------------------------------------------
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions


Public Class WebPost
    Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()

        'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
        m_sURL = String.Empty
        m_sReferer = String.Empty
        m_sUserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

        m_hwrRequest = Nothing
        m_hwrResponse = Nothing
        m_ccCookies = New CookieCollection()
    End Sub
#Region " Instance variables "
    Private m_sUserAgent As String
    Private m_hwrRequest As HttpWebRequest
    Private m_hwrResponse As HttpWebResponse
    Private m_ccCookies As CookieCollection
    Private m_sReferer As String
    Private m_sURL As String
#End Region

    Public ReadOnly Property Cookies() As CookieCollection
        Get
            Return m_ccCookies
        End Get
    End Property

    Public Property URL() As String
        Get
            Return m_sURL
        End Get
        Set(ByVal Value As String)
            m_sURL = Value
        End Set
    End Property

    Public Property Referer() As String
        Get
            Return m_sReferer
        End Get
        Set(ByVal Value As String)
            m_sReferer = Value
        End Set
    End Property

    Public Function Request(ByVal sPOSTData As String, Optional ByVal bAutoRedirect As Boolean = False, Optional ByVal hshHeader As Hashtable = Nothing) As String
        Dim uriSite As Uri
        Dim sReturn As String
        Dim srReader As StreamReader

        sReturn = String.Empty
        Try
            ' Setup request
            uriSite = New Uri(m_sURL)
            m_hwrRequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(uriSite), HttpWebRequest)
            m_hwrRequest.Referer = m_sReferer
            m_hwrRequest.UserAgent = m_sUserAgent
            m_hwrRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = bAutoRedirect
            m_hwrRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = True
            m_hwrRequest.KeepAlive = False
            m_hwrRequest.Accept = "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*"

           
            ''Set cookies if any
            'If m_ccCookies.Count > 0 Then
            '    m_hwrRequest.CookieContainer = New CookieContainer()
            '    m_hwrRequest.CookieContainer.Add(m_ccCookies)
            'End If

            'If POST data then set here
            If Not (sPOSTData Is Nothing) AndAlso sPOSTData.Length > 0 Then
                Dim stWS As Stream
                Dim aeEnc As ASCIIEncoding
                Dim baBuf As Byte()

                aeEnc = New ASCIIEncoding()
                baBuf = aeEnc.GetBytes(sPOSTData)

                m_hwrRequest.Method = "POST"
                m_hwrRequest.ContentLength = baBuf.Length
                m_hwrRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
                If Not (hshHeader Is Nothing) = True Then
                    For Each de As DictionaryEntry In hshHeader
                        m_hwrRequest.Headers.Add(de.Key.ToString, de.Value.ToString)
                    Next
                End If


                stWS = m_hwrRequest.GetRequestStream()
                stWS.Write(baBuf, 0, baBuf.Length)
                stWS.Close()
                'm_hwrRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = True
            End If


            m_hwrResponse = DirectCast(m_hwrRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)

            srReader = New StreamReader(m_hwrResponse.GetResponseStream())
            sReturn = srReader.ReadToEnd()
            srReader.Close()


            Me.Referer = m_hwrResponse.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri
            'Catch wex As Exception
            '    sReturn &= wex.Message.ToString & vbCrLf

        Catch ex As Exception
            sReturn &= ex.ToString & vbCrLf

        End Try

        Return sReturn
    End Function
End Class

Resume Search API with asp.net help

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:56:18 -0700

HI,

With 400 (Bad Request) response, you will also get the XML in the response body, which describes the error which was encountered. The connection should not be terminated as soon as 400 is received in the response header, instead the whole response body should be read.

In this particular case, the error is invalid location. CountryCode is a mandatory field in a location, hence supply USA as the CountryCode value in the XML.

Thanks

Resume Search API response Schemas?

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:11:56 -0800

Yahoo Team:

Where can I find the Resume Search API response XML Schemas? I am specifically interested in the "View Resume" and the "Search Results" response XML Schemas.

For example, I am trying to understand the multiplicity and structure of nested children for elements under the root " Resume" element of the "View Resume" response so I can correctly map in internally.

Thank You,
Mark A.
PegaSoft

Resume Search API response Schemas?

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:11:56 -0800

QUOTE (mark_arsh @ Jan 13 2009, 10:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yahoo Team:

Where can I find the Resume Search API response XML Schemas? I am specifically interested in the "View Resume" and the "Search Results" response XML Schemas.

For example, I am trying to understand the multiplicity and structure of nested children for elements under the root " Resume" element of the "View Resume" response so I can correctly map in internally.

Thank You,
Mark A.
PegaSoft

I replied to this via email, but I also wanted to post here:

Here is a link to the entire Resume API user guide: http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/

Here are a couple pages that show Success Response XML code:
http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...viewResume.html
http://developer.yahoo.com/hotjobs/resume_...sumeSearch.html

Resume Search API response Schemas?

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:11:56 -0800

SearchResults.xsd

Resume Search API response Schemas?

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:11:56 -0800

Resume.xsd

hotjobs advanced rss feed broken

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:51:06 -0800

try it here... http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/api/jobsearch/sea...;city1=San+Jose &state1=CA
just does not work. is there a new url?

hotjobs advanced rss feed broken

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:51:06 -0800

QUOTE (anticlickwise @ Jan 5 2009, 12:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

try it here... http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/api/jobsearch/sea...;city1=San+Jose &state1=CA
just does not work. is there a new url?

that's exactly the same problem i've had, i posted to the forum but heard nothing back yet ...

any Yahoo Developers out there looking at this ? please help!

hotjobs advanced rss feed broken

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:51:06 -0800

QUOTE (anticlickwise @ Jan 5 2009, 12:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

try it here... http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/api/jobsearch/sea...;city1=San+Jose &state1=CA
just does not work. is there a new url?

Hi,
This forum is for the HotJobs APIs for recruiters. I have redirected your queries to the right place and will post the response as soon as I get it.
AFAIK the new/correct url is like http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-rss-k-java-c-...M-j-CONT-h-java

hotjobs advanced rss feed broken

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:51:06 -0800

The new URL is:

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/api/search/search...lts_rss.html?...

Job RSS Feed is broken

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:48:27 -0800

hello, i've been playing around with the RSS feeds and they seem to be broken to me, first of all i tried to look for something outside the USA and the results i get are still in the US:

USA Search:
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/rss/0/USA/-/-/MIS/java
Canada Search:
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/rss/0/CAN/-/-/MIS/java

in fact, any country you try will result in USA results ???

also the advanced request is completely broken, i always get a 403 Firbidden error page.

note that you also said the basic RSS request is the same as the one used in HotJobs search site ... but that is not true, when I do a search on the site, the RSS generated is completely different:

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-rss-k-java-c-...M-j-CONT-h-java

its not even the same syntax ??

what's going on here ?
I'm I loosing it? or is it broken?

thanks for you help.

Job RSS Feed is broken

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:48:27 -0800

QUOTE (Ahmad Nassri @ Jan 1 2009, 01:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

hello, i've been playing around with the RSS feeds and they seem to be broken to me, first of all i tried to look for something outside the USA and the results i get are still in the US:

USA Search:
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/rss/0/USA/-/-/MIS/java
Canada Search:
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/rss/0/CAN/-/-/MIS/java

in fact, any country you try will result in USA results ???

also the advanced request is completely broken, i always get a 403 Firbidden error page.

note that you also said the basic RSS request is the same as the one used in HotJobs search site ... but that is not true, when I do a search on the site, the RSS generated is completely different:

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/job-rss-k-java-c-...M-j-CONT-h-java

its not even the same syntax ??

what's going on here ?
I'm I loosing it? or is it broken?

thanks for you help.

Hi,
This forum is for the HotJobs APIs for recruiters. I have redirected your queries to the right place and will post the response as soon as I get it.
To see the jobs in Canada, user should be in ca.hotjobs.yahoo.com i.e, http://ca.hotjobs.yahoo.com/rss/0/CAN/-/-/MIS/java

Job RSS Feed is broken

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:48:27 -0800

We have revamped the RSS URL Format and the documentation will be updated ASAP. To get an idea of the new format pls look at the rss link in Hotjobs search result page.

Getting started in Java

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:44:04 -0800

I'm looking to get something up and running quickly with the Hotjobs Resumé Search API.

The Java samples provided are for the general Yahoo search API only. Are there samples for the resume search API?
Are there XML schema definitions available? That would at least allow JAXB to auto-generate classes.
Is there a WADL available for this API? That would allow JAX-WS to auto-generate stubs for everything.

Basically, I'm trying to exhaust all possibilities before I start making manual HTTP requests, and writing a bunch of result handling code by hand.

Hot jobs API testing for developer