Re: SMS as server infos

[joy <gracecott@sancharnet.in>]

Chris DiTrani wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 08:56, Ahsan Ali wrote:
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>>Most cell phone carriers have websites where you can go and SMS one of
>>their subscribers for free. Often called "Internet Chat" or
>>"Web-2-SMS" or something similar.
>>
>>Using a HTTP POST means you put together something that will go to
>>that particular site and do a HTTP POST (same as you typing something
>>into some fields on a web page and clicking "send" or "submit" on the
>>page) to send a line of text or a message to your particular number.
>>
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>>
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>Yes. If you find your cell provider's web portal to sms (my provers:
>http://www.mymmode.com/messagecenter/), either by looking at the source
>html or worst case sniffing the packet when submitting the form you can
>figure out what the data posted to the server looks like and emulate
>that from a script (probably 1/2 dozen lines of Python code). This
>approach is a hack since it's depending on a private interface (the
>format of the posted data and url itself) that can be changed at any
>time (i.e. you wouldn't want to build a critical notification system
>around it), so substituting  a real sms api or toolset for the post to
>your cell provider would probably be better. Using a already available
>package that wraps all this up would be better still, but I don't have
>any experience with that.
>
>CD
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Yes,I think I get the general idea.... will do some more research and  
see whether it can be my next
pastime (NO, I'm not a geek!).

Thanx,
Joy.M.M

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