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Alex Kaiser
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Username: Alex_k

Post Number: 3
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 10:09 am:   

Hello Bryce!

Could NowSMS team implement management of "AllowedUserOnly" via WebAdmin Interface (http GET requests)? I think that can be very useful for website's integration and automation of usage.

Common task:
1. Query particular SMSC connection for allowed users list
2. Adding users
3. Removing users

best regards,
Alex K.
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 6308
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 03:42 am:   

Hi Alex,

That is a good idea. I'll see if we can get that in the development queue.

-bn
Alex Kaiser
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Username: Alex_k

Post Number: 4
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 02:06 pm:   

Hi Bryce,

What do you think about an idea to implement WebAdmin in Web Services API?

best regards,
Alex K.


Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 6349
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 07:19 pm:   

Hi Alex,

That doesn't excite me as much. Mainly because it is outside of our area of expertise.

Most of the items in our active development work list are new features or performance related.

If you can give any examples of what you would like to see, we can take them into consideration. Detailed examples would be helpful.

Then again ... as I think about it. I'm assuming that basically, you'd like to see the "/provision", "/dlists" and "/addrbook" interfaces be XML based. In which case, I don't really need an example from you ... but I want to make sure I understand what you're asking about.

-bn
Alex Kaiser
New member
Username: Alex_k

Post Number: 5
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 02:27 pm:   

Hi Bryce!

Web Services would be very useful for:
1. Adminstartive tasks (like managing SMS user accounts; adding, removing and checking credits and so on)
2. Send SMS.
3. many more :-)

The only and the main argument, that web services infrastrucute is nativ for .net framework. People who is programming for windows can add NowSMS functionality in their application in minutes. No need to understand how NoSMS's HTTP GET based API works.

One step forward is to replace windows GUI with HTML menu. Like it done with /ADMIN. No need to use RDP anymore :-)

regards,
Alex K.
Alex Kaiser
New member
Username: Alex_k

Post Number: 6
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Monday, August 28, 2006 - 09:41 pm:   

Hi Bryce!

What do you think about my ideas?

regards
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 6467
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 05:43 pm:   

Hi Alex,

Conceptually, I like the ideas.

But when it comes to web services, someone needs to give our engineers a crash course in ".net". They understand the lower level protocols very well ... but not ".net".

For example, they asked me what data would be received by the NowSMS server in a ".net" request? I'm assuming that it would be XML, but I don't know what needs to be done to define a XML schema that could then be easily used by a ".net" application.

We are looking at adding parameters to the provisioning interface for setting/querying the allowed users. But that is still a little ways down the development queue.

-bn