Connect MMSC via GPRS connection

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Denny Lipari
Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:56 am:   

Hi to everyone.

I have a question about how to directly connect the MMSC by a phone through a gprs connection for sending message.

Once starded gprs session with the correct apn if i want to send HTTP/WSP message to MMSC which entity have I to address for my HTTP transaction?
Must I address directly the MMSC (like mms.operator.com address) or the Wap Gateway Ip Address? And wich port I must use? The standard HTTP port (80)?

Regards,
Denny
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 07:33 pm:   

Denny,

The operator might let you talk to the MMSC directly over HTTP with the GPRS connection, but that is not likely.

It is more likely that you have to use the WAP protocols to connect to the operator WAP gateway. The WAP Session Protocol (WSP) maps directly to HTTP, but in a TCP/IP environment it uses binary encoding to reduce size and is implemented over UDP instead of TCP.

Basically, you need to POST or GET via WSP instead of HTTP ... using the WAP gateway as a proxy. You connect to the WAP Gateway as a WAP client.

If you don't need to implement this with your own code, you might want to take a look at the v5.0 beta release of the Now SMS/MMS Gateway (download and details @ http://www.nowsms.com/beta5), as we have the ability to do this in our product.

-bn
newbie
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - 06:16 am:   

In Mobile device, is there "127.0.0.1" ?
I wonder if "127.0.0.1" refer to device itself as PC network. Thanks a lot.