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| saimike New member Username: Saimike Post Number: 7 Registered: 02-2007 |
Is it possible for nowsms to send a MMS Recommended Retrieval Message? In this message there are also 2 particular headers ("X-Mms-Recommended-Retrieval-Mode" and "X-Mms-Recommended-Retrieval-Mode-Text"). Does nowsms create notifications with these 2 headers? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7135 Registered: 10-2002 |
No. Those are new optional headers defined in MMS 1.3. And while we have just finished adding MMS 1.3 support for the next version of NowSMS ... we didn't add support for those headers. We did add support for the "Application ID" headers that allow MMS messages to be sent to specific applications other than the standard MMS client. However, that is really the only new optional MMS 1.3 functionality that we implemented. Hmm ... you've got me thinking though ... one of the features of the new NowSMS version is an "Advanced WAP Push" functionality which allows you to insert additional headers for various testing purposes. We should probably look at adding similar functionality to "Send MMS Notification" ... in fact, it would be relatively easy to support other types of PDUs via this interface such as delivery notifications, read receipts, and MMS 1.3's mysterious cancel request. Hmm...stay tuned... -bn | |||
| saimike New member Username: Saimike Post Number: 9 Registered: 02-2007 |
Bryce, I would be very interested in using this functionality so please keep me updated. In addition, I was wondering if there's a checklist of what nowsms support (various headers, etc) somewhere so I can compare it with my testplan (for mobiles, not nowsms *grin*)? | |||
| saimike New member Username: Saimike Post Number: 10 Registered: 02-2007 |
To clarify, your eureka moment had the effect of making me think what else (similar to X-Mms-Recommended-Retrieval-Mode-Text) I can use nowsms to do. As far as possible, I would like to use nowsms to send the msg over-the-air, and hope you can help point me to the right direction on this matter. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7149 Registered: 10-2002 |
Ok ... we've almost finished the next semi-major release of NowSMS. There is a pre-release version available for download at http://www.nowsms.com/download/nowsms2007.zip. As part of the expanded capability, we have added the ability to include custom headers when sending MMS messages. So for this particular setting, you could put the following in the "Additional Headers" field of the "Send MMS Message" form: X-Mms-Recommended-Retrieval-Mode: Manual X-Mms-Recommended-Retrieval-Mode-Text: This message should be manually retrieved You can include text versions of most of the MMS 1.0 thru 1.3 headers. (There may be others that we don't support, but one I'm aware of us not supporting is "X-Mms-Element-Descriptor", because we don't have a good understanding of how or why it might be used.) Some of the additional headers are specific to notification PDUs, others become part of the message itself. You can mix and match them in the "Additional Headers" field. We've also enhanced the "Send MMS Notification" web form as well with an "Additional Headers" field. This form is normally used to send a notification when you have a fixed URL that contains the content of an MMS message. So any headers specified here would apply to the notification PDU only. But, we did a neat trick here ... the "Additional Headers" field on this page allows you to specify a PDU type. The default is "X-Mms-Message-Type: m-notification-ind", but you can insert your own "X-Mms-Message-Type" header to specify a different PDU type (and leave the "MMS URL" field blank if it does not apply to the PDU type you are sending). It's some relatively advanced stuff (and I'm sure it will generate many questions), but I think it offers a lot of flexibility for testing environments. -bn | |||
| saimike New member Username: Saimike Post Number: 13 Registered: 02-2007 |
Bryce, I just got to upgrade it since I did not want to burden my testers with potentially buggy sw  Will let you know how it turns out. Thanks for putting this in, I think its a good first step in the right direction as it really broadens our test horizon. What I'd like to see in the future is more "point and click" like how flash sms was incorporated first as a pretty manual process, then the web interface was cleaned up. (I've been looking in the archives!) Keep up the good work. | |||
