How send MMS via TCP/IP connection without WAP

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Khwezi Mngoma
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Username: Nexus

Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2003

Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 07:27 am:

I have just downloaded, sintalled and setup the NowSMS/MMS v5 software onto my computer. I do not have a GSM engine or some sort of modem to transmit my messages to other phones.

We have a leased line to our operator which I will use to send & receive my messages. I am using your software as a testing platform before we move on to the real thing (our operator uses your software).

What I want to do is open a TCP/IP connection using my custom built software, log-in to a specific IP and send my messages, then receive responses to my messages. I suppose I need to construct some sort of MMS PDU. The problem is that I am not sure exactly what the log-in PDU has to look like and what the response will be; what the message PDU should look like and how I should decompose what I get back.

I would appreciate guidence in this, my organization would like to start a new mms service early 2004, and I confident that with the proper pointers or guidence from you, I will be able to make it work. I already understand (to a certain extent) how WSP PDUs should look like, but then again they are for WAP not internet/network data transmissions.

I hope this makes sense, If you can help, please do.

Thanks for your time.

Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 1430
Registered: 10-2002

Posted on Friday, December 19, 2003 - 09:57 pm:

Hi,

For future reference, if you have any questions that are specific to the Now SMS/MMS Gateway, please post them in one of the "support" forums of this discussion board.

We try to maintain the "Technical Discussions" areas as more suited toward general technology discussions that are not specifically related to our products (and we also do not respond to messages in those areas as timely).

From your description, I'd suggest using MM7.

The only catch is that it is difficult to setup a simulated environment for sending and receiving messages that would be close to the your eventual configuration.

Probably the easiest thing to do would be to setup a loopback type of system. You submit MM7 messages into the system, and it then delivers them back to you via MM7.

To set this up in NowSMS, what you would configure is this ...

1.) Configure an entry on the "MMSC VASP" page. This is how you define your system to NowSMS to allow your system to submit messages to NowSMS via MM7.

2.) Configure an entry on the "MMSC Routing" page that defines how NowSMS can connect back to you to deliver MMS messages that it has received for you via MM7.

If you want a loopback connection where every message you submit gets delivered back to you, then specify "*" for "Route received messages to this account for recipient phone number(s)".

I wouldn't see any WSP PDUs being used in this type of setup. That is pretty much of use only in a GPRS environment.

-bn

hardik khakhkhar
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Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 05:29 am:

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