Hacking 3.8.14.1 UPS Shipping to work in USA

So, I have had a slew of issues getting UPS shipping to work. The main symptom is that it won’t show shipping rates unless you’re logged in to WordPress. Near as I can tell, after hacking on the UPS shipping module for a while, functions like wpsc_get_customer_meta() behave differently and badly when the user isn’t logged in. So wpsc_get_customer_meta(‘shippingcountry’) won’t return anything, for instance, if the user isn’t logged in.

This is bad, mmkay, because aside from the fact that there’s code in ups_20.php that flat out quits when it can’t figure out what country we’re shipping to, we can’t figure out the proper state code for shipping UPS because we can’t use the region finder thingy WPSC_Country. So we end up asking UPS to calculate shipping to “Oregon” instead of “OR”, and UPS is all like, psshhh, Oregon isn’t a place we ship to, fool.

Anyhoo. I only want to make this thing work for now, for the USA, so here is what I did. Find the file called “ups_20.php” in wp-e-commerce/wpsc-shipping. Line 721 should say this:
$args['dest_ccode'] = wpsc_get_customer_meta( 'shippingcountry' );

Make that line say this:
$args['dest_ccode'] = 'US'; // Whee, USA all the way

Then find lines 761 through 763 inclusive, which hopefully say:

if ( empty ( $args['dest_state'] ) ) {
    $args['dest_state'] = wpsc_get_customer_meta( 'shippingstate' );
}

And just comment those bad boys right out. Now we’ll send a request to UPS with no state identifier! And that’s OK! Because UPS knows about these things called Zip codes. Do you capitalize it like ZIP? Whatever. USA all the way! Just kill me now.

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