Setup with no modem and no smsc

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Niall Crosby
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Username: Niall

Post Number: 1
Registered: 02-2009
Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 - 04:03 pm:   

Hi,

I have a client looking to connect into our application via SMPP. Is it possible to use NowSMS for this task? As a proxy between our app and theirs? They have a third pary product that sends / receives SMS and expects to be plugged into an SMSC via SMPP. With NowSMS, I can see that I can give them an SMPP account for sending SMSC and I could process this using HTTP / TCPIP SMSC (is this the only way?) otherwise the messages just stay in the 'Q' directory (which I could take from also I guess). The bit thats confusing me then is can I send SMS back to the user account? I don't see any way of injecting 'incoming' messages into NowSMS and the HTTP / TCPIP SMSC communication appears to be unidirectional. Is it possible to handle inbound SMS with an SMSC connection? And can these SMS be routed to user accounts connected over SMPP to NowSMS?

Many thanks,
Niall.
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 489
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 - 10:27 pm:   

Hi Niall,

Yes, that is possible.

The interface that makes the most sense is what you've described ... defining an HTTP SMSC connection, and using that to route the messages to your application.

You can send messages back to the SMPP clients by sending HTTP GET requests back to NowSMS. The easiest way to set this up, is under "SMS Users", where you define the SMPP client accounts, check the option to "Route received messages to user via SMPP". Then define a virtual phone number for that account in "Recipient address(es) to route to this user" (you can have a comma delimited list here). Whenever NowSMS receives a message addressed to a phone number listed here, it knows to route it back to this account.

It's also possible to include "&LocalUser=xxxxx" in the URL parameters when you submit a message via HTTP to tell NowSMS that it should be delivered to a particular client user account without assigning a virtual phone number to the account.

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Des
NowSMS Support