Magento - Category based shipping rates, is this possible?

I have searched google and the Magento forum to no avail.

Is it possible to assign different shi开发者_开发技巧pping rates to each of the categories?

Certainly, but you would need to implement your own shipping plugin to do that.

This magento wiki article will be a good place to start.

As an implementation caveat, remember that products can be in multiple categories.

It's the cop-out answer, but there are modules that allow you to assign items to groups and have shipping rates per-group.

http://www.webshopapps.com/uk/shipping/productmatrix-shipping-extension.html