Retry Attempts on binds

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Chris
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Username: Chrisc

Post Number: 16
Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 - 04:26 pm:   

Hi guys

We're busy changing a part of our system for premium messaging and were wondering if there is any way of having the retry attempt parameters at a bind level?

I've looked in the documentation and can see that we can do this at the [SMSGW] section of the SMSGW.ini file, but not at bind level.

Is it possible to do this?

Since I'm on the topic, although I think I might be pushing it slightly, is there a possibility of having this as part of the HTTP request that is submitted to NowSMS?

Either scenario would work, but like to know if this is possible to do?

Thanks
Chris
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1522
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - 04:18 pm:   

Hi Chris,

Sorry, all of the retry parameters apply to all binds.

It would be a good idea to allow the global settings to be overridden on a bind-by-bind basis.

I can submit this is a future request for engineering.

I'm not sure that I follow how this would be implemented at an HTTP level.

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Des
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Chris
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Username: Chrisc

Post Number: 18
Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - 05:16 pm:   

Hi Des

Thanks for replying back.

Regarding the HTTP level, we have something in mind along the lines of having an additional parameter that can be added to the querystring, e.g. &MaxRetry=XX for any particular message that we submit to NowSMS.

Is this possible?

We are quite happy to work with both scenarios, but it seems that implementing it on a bind-by-bind level will be easier?

Thanks
Chris
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1530
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - 10:30 pm:   

Hi Chris,

We did some preliminary investigation and supporting the bind specific parameter overrides appears to be a somewhat simple change (famous last words).

Message specific handling is considerably more involved.

I can't promise anything real quickly, but I'm working to get this in the engineering queue.

-- Des
Chris
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Username: Chrisc

Post Number: 19
Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009 - 09:26 am:   

Hi Des

By no means trying to push you guys for anything, but I thought I'd ask if there's any update on the query above?

Thanks
Chris
Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1577
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009 - 08:48 pm:   

Hi Chris,

It's been implemented, but it is stuck in testing along with some other minor changes.

I'm hopeful that we'll see it available as an interim download Monday or Tuesday.

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Des
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Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1652
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 02:04 am:   

Chris,

Apologies ... I just realised that I had neglected to follow up on this.

There have been a few updates posted that include this change. The retry settings can be specified under the SMSGW.INI section header for each connection to override global settings.


quote:

* SMS Gateway: Allow retry parameters to be specified on a per-SMSC connection basis, so that different connections can have different retry settings. If any of the following retry parameters is found in the SMSC specific section of SMSGW.INI, it will override the default setting under the [SMSGW] header: RetryDelay, RetryDelayMultiplier, RetryDelayAfterAttempts, RetryDelayMax, RetryMaxAttempts, InitRetryDelay, InitRetryDelayMultiplier, InitRetryDelayAfterAttempts, InitRetryDelayMax.




I just posted [bad link, see updated post below] which includes this logic.

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Des
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Des - NowSMS Support
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Username: Desosms

Post Number: 1653
Registered: 08-2008
Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 02:05 am:   

Correction http://www.nowsms.com/download/nowsms20100111.zip