StockistPhoenix is a PUSH API for publishing prices and inventory and for reservation notifications .
All messages (except for reservation notifications) follow this flow scheme:
For reservation notifications, a request must be made to the StockistPhoenix web service to notify the creation, modification, or cancellation of a reservation that has occurred in the external system. In this case, the flow will be as follows:
The communication of all messages is done via HTTP RAW, meaning the sending is done through a POST over HTTP but with a body in XML text format.
Connection Protocol :
- XML messaging over HTTP.
The messages must always be sent via HTTP RAW POST (POST without passing parameters). - The encoding of the messages is UTF-8.
- All messages support gzip compression. If the client wishes to receive compressed XML responses, they must specify it in the HTTP headers of their request:
Accept-encoding: gzip