SI_ID Support via http API?

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Chris Stenz
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Username: Cstenz

Post Number: 5
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 05:10 pm:   

Bryce:

Attempting to send a SI_ID within a WAP Push message via an http post to Now SMS. I understand this is an optional field but the aggregator (Clickatell) is requesting we use that in order to help them in tracking the individual messages to the end recipient.

Can this be passed as a variable to NowSMS via an http post? If yes I assume it is passed as a variable up to 250 characters with a field name on WAPSIID. I also updated the URL Template Binary to the following:

/http/sendmsg?api_id=XXXXXX&user=XXXXXX&password=XXXXXX&to=@@PhoneNumber@@&udh=@ @UDH@@&text=@@Text@@&from=@@Sender@@&deliv_ack=1&si_id=@@WAPSIID@@

Does this appear to be correct? I am having difficulty determining whether or not this is actually being passed to the aggregator correctly.

Thanks,
Chris
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3565
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 09:55 pm:   

Hi Chris,

There is support for WAP push submissions into NowSMS to include an SI_ID. This is described at the following link:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/3834.html

However, this is only used for instructing NowSMS how to build the WAP Push. The SI ID is used by the browser ... primarily to allow the browser to detect replacement push messages. The idea is that if a push message comes in with an id of a push message that was previously received, the newer push can replace the existing one in the push inbox.

So we don't do anything with this parameter other than use it to build the push message content. It is not forwarded to an HTTP SMSC interface via a separate variable, and I can't really see why an SMS service would want this.

Occasionally we do have people who want to send additional parameters to an HTTP based SMS service provider. There is a description of how you can do this at the following link:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/321.html

That might meet your needs.

-bn