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| Lars Nielsen New member Username: Larsmservice Post Number: 16 Registered: 10-2003 |
Anyone got a successfull mblox connection setup in nowSms ? Basically i see more and more gatewys setting up their services up with a xml interface, which makes it hard to use nowsms to connect to it. mainly because of the POST that nowsms should make towards the xml interface. Bryce maybe you guys should consider this. How bout making a subfolder in nowsms called XMLPOST, just like you have the OTA folder today. In the XMLPOST folder i could have the POSTs to gateways that aquires xml. Something like <message> <to>@@sender@@</to> <msg>@@message@@</msg> </message> the @@x@@ would be replaced by the data we POSt to nowms. Do you get the picture Bryce ? ;-)Lars | |||
| Lars Nielsen New member Username: Larsmservice Post Number: 17 Registered: 10-2003 |
here is another person seeking your wisdom ;) http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/89.html | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 1370 Registered: 10-2002 |
That's a good idea Lars. We've got other people asking us for non-XML based HTTP POST interfaces as well. We could possibly kill two birds with one stone (an odd expression, but you get the idea) with this type of approach.  The file could allow a partial HTTP header (in case you need to specify a content-type for the POST), then a blank line, then the POST content with replaceable parameters like in the existing GET templates. It won't happen today, but let me get this into the development queue ... | |||
| Lars Nielsen New member Username: Larsmservice Post Number: 18 Registered: 10-2003 |
Exactly Bryce. One thing to remember though. Some gateways with xml´interface want the xml packed into a parameter like: http://somewhere.com?XMLDATA=<xml>xml feed here</xml> XMLDATA= must not be urlencoded, but the xml feed must be urlecoded. So while youre at it maybe we could do something like we do today with @@data@@ Urlencode data could be packed in like this: XMLDATA=##<xml>xml feed here</xml>## Everything inside ## ## should then be urlencoded. Finally. I dont really undestand why gateways are so up on xml. xml is great yes. But a simple POST is much easier for everyone, and less server rescourcefull. I use xml a lot with importing/exporting from databases. Things like javagames from macrospace, and so on. xml works great there. But when sending data to gateways i dont really see the big picture. Any server than can xml can also do ordinary POSTs. I will actually use my weekend now to see if i can get nowsms to post xml data to mblox. Hopefully it should work. I'll let you know. Have a nice weekend everybody. ;)Lars | |||
| Lars Nielsen New member Username: Larsmservice Post Number: 19 Registered: 10-2003 |
Maybe i'll take that back about getting it to work on nowsms. mainly because of the XMLDATA= must no be urlencoded, but the rest mu be urlencoded. I'll still give it a shot though. I cant stop thinking about the idea of having xml files stored and to make nowsms use them. You could have a connection in nowsms like this: [HTTP - sms.bryce.dk:8080] SenderAddress=72112 UserName=bryce Password=theman TemplateText=/Sender/servlet/MSSender?@@72112.xml@@ TemplateBinary=/Sender/servlet/MSSender?@@72112.xml@@ ServerType=Custom HTTPUseAuth=No SendLongMessage=yes Then nowsms would go pickup the file i call in the @@ @@ tags. | |||
