HTTP connection to clickatell

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Petter
Posted on Friday, July 04, 2003 - 02:11 pm:   

Hi,

I have setup a HTTP connection to Clickatell as follow:

Hostname: api.clickatell.com
Port number: 80
Server type: Custom
URL template type:
/http/sendmsg?api_id=**APIid**&user=**my username**&password=**my pasword**&to=@@PhoneNumber@@&text=@@Text@@

(With my username and pasword in the variabl)

Have checked "Remove *+*" and "support any aoutbound message traffic"

My problem is that, the gateway is not sending out the data to clickatel...When I test it I will get "HTTP connection OK" and stats will tell my that the messege is sent out. How can I fix this problem?

Petter
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Monday, July 07, 2003 - 09:54 pm:   

Petter,

Make sure that you don't actually have the "*" characters included in your URL template.

I'd suggest enabling debug mode in the gateway, and sending me a debug log to inspect so that I can understand what is occurring.

Manually edit SMSGW.INI, and under the [SMSGW] section header, add the statement Debug=Yes. Then restart the NowSMS service.

The gateway will produce an SMSDEBUG.LOG file as it runs.

Repeat your attempt to send a message.

Then e-mail the SMSDEBUG.LOG to nowsms@now.co.uk.

As the debug log will include information about your account, I suggest editing the SMSDEBUG.LOG before you send it, and replace your Clickatell username and password with "x" characters as sending via e-mail is insecure.

-bn