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| RobArande Unregistered guest |
I am trying to send an MMS from the web (http://127.0.0.1:8800/)and appears the following error : Error: Unable to fetch URL: http://127.0.0.1/20051004/12/43425B73a.MMS Do you have any clue? Thanks in advance | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 5020 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Rob, There are a few problems here ... But let's start with the immediate cause of the "Unable to fetch URL" error. When NowSMS sends an MMS message, it begins by creating an MMS message file and storing it as a dynamically generated URL on its MMSC. Before sending out an MMS notification message over WAP Push/SMS with a pointer to that URL, NowSMS does a sanity check to validate the URL. In this particular case, it looks like the MMSC is configured to use port 80. But it is likely that another web server is already using that port. If you go to the "MMSC" page of the NowSMS configuration, you will likely see an error about this problem. So when NowSMS tries to connect to the MMSC to fetch the dynamically generated URL, it can't. Once you get past this error message by choosing a different port for the MMSC (or stopping the other running web server), you'll run into a second problem. "127.0.0.1" is not a valid setting for the "Local Host Name or IP Address" parameter. This setting must have an externally accessible IP address or host name. Basically, NowSMS is going to use this to build a URL that points back to the MMSC, and send it out to the receiving mobile phone. When the receiving mobile phone tries to connect to "127.0.0.1", it is not going to reach your MMSC ... and the mobile will not be able to retrieve your message. Please see http://www.nowsms.com/howmmsworks.htm for a description of how MMS works, and different configuration options (such as how you can configure NowSMS to send MMS messages via the operator MMSC over a GPRS modem instead of as its own MMSC). Related threads, which might provide more info: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/11053.html And if your external IP is not accessible from inside of your firewall, see here: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/117.html -bn | |||
