From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: SMS as server infos Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:05:43 +0530 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40DC1C1F.7060700@sancharnet.in> References: <200406231841.05090.fluca1978@virgilio.it> <1088010764.17780.54.camel@chris.livedata.com> <40DAB7B9.1060909@sancharnet.in> <17daa8560406240556640b1806@mail.gmail.com> <1088083800.2841.26.camel@chris.livedata.com> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <1088083800.2841.26.camel@chris.livedata.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Chris DiTrani wrote: >On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 08:56, Ahsan Ali wrote: > > >>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. >> >> >> > >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 > > 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 >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >