Send SMS from external application

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Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 09:04 am:

Hi Bryce,

As i know, to trigger NowSMS for sending SMS are through HTTP with specific parameter.
Is there any others way to do it from external application?

Thank you,

Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support

Posted on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 05:36 pm:

Generally you would perform the HTTP trigger directly from an external application.

Here's a thread with an example of how this could be done via a command line utility via the Windows script host ... with a simple script to send a message:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/375.html

Here's a link to some ASP resources for issuing the requests from an ASP script:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/252.html

What development environment do you wish to connect from? Most environments these days provide some simple APIs for issuing HTTP requests.

-bn

Anonymous

Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 03:35 am:

We use web (IE) as interface to user with Lotus Domino as development environemnt which run on several operating systems, including Windows and SUN Unix.

We need to send SMS from Domino agent, after web form is submitted and processed to server.
In case only HTTP is supported, then Domino agent must twice access HTTP, one for sending SMS and the last is for displaying form result as user submit it.

Thanks,

Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support

Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 07:27 pm:

I have no experience with the Domino development environment.

From within a Domino script, you would need to have the ability for the script to generate an HTTP request (a simple HTTP GET) to the NowSMS server.

I think you can use JSP with Domino, correct?

I'm not a JSP expert either, but I believe you can use the HttpConnection class to generate a simple HTTP request to another server from within your JSP.

Basically, you just want to send an HTTP GET request to the NowSMS gateway to send an SMS message.

http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/sending_messages/sendin g_text_messages.htm

http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/sending_messages/url_pa rameters_for_sending_messages.htm