What authentication does the Canada Post Rating API use?

It uses HTTP Basic authentication with the userid:password pair issued by Canada Post in the developer portal. Through Jentic, the credential is stored in your Jentic One instance and injected into the Authorization header at execution time, so the raw secret never enters the agent's prompt context.

Does the API accept JSON requests?

No. The /rs/ship/price endpoint exchanges Canada Post's XML rating-service schema. Send the XML request body with the appropriate content type and parse the XML response. Jentic surfaces the operation's request shape so the agent can populate it correctly.

How do I quote a shipping rate through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, then search 'get a Canada Post shipping rate' through the Jentic SDK. Jentic returns POST /rs/ship/price with its input schema. Provide origin postal code, destination postal code, and parcel weight, then execute the operation.

Are there separate test and production environments?

Yes. The OpenAPI spec lists two servers: production at https://soa-gw.canadapost.ca and development at https://ct.soa-gw.canadapost.ca. Use the development environment with test credentials before switching to production.

Can I retrieve transit times alongside prices?

Yes. The rating response includes a service-standard block per priced service that lists the expected transit days and the guaranteed delivery flag, which lets a shipping calculator render a delivery-date promise next to each option.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Canada Post Rating API?

Yes. Because Jentic One is self-hosted, you decide which operations your agent may call, and this API exposes only a single rate-quote operation, POST /rs/ship/price, so the agent is scoped to retrieving shipping rates and service options and nothing else. Your Canada Post userid and password are stored once in your own instance and injected into the Basic Authorization header at execution time, so the agent never sees the raw credential. The rules you set decide the operations and credentials the agent can use, keeping it limited to pricing parcels between two postal codes.