help with formatting the message text (http send api)

[Kamran Rana]

hi

I have a number of database fields that contain text that will be used to build up the message text before being sent.

eg.

data1:=’hello’

data2:=’are’

data3:=’you’

data3:=’there’

sms_text=data1+data2+data3+data4

and used with a get url command

eg. ‘http://192………..+’&text=’+sms_text;

the above does not work ? it only works with data1 on its own but when i try to add more eg data2+data3+data4 it does not work.

There is clearly a formatting issue of some sort?

The API is not interpreting the joined data ?

Thanks

Kamran

[Darrik Spaude]

Kamran,

What is the actual URL that is being sent to the iSMS?

[Kamran Rana]

Hi Darrik

urlstring:=’http://192.168.2.1:81/sendmsg?user=admin&passwd=admin&cat=1&enc=0&priority=2&to=’+mobilenumber+’&text=’+sms_text;

where mobilenumber:='”07516171888″‘;

data1:=fieldofchar1;

data2:=fieldofchar2;

where sms_text:=data1+data2;

from what i can work out when composing the full message it falls over when it comes across any spaces

if data1:= ‘abcde’ and data2:=’it a fine day’

where sms_text:=data1+data2 — falls over

where sms_text:=data1 works ok

thanks

kamran

[Darrik Spaude]

I’d still like to see the actual string that is received by the iSMS. In the world of URLs, a plus (+) is used in place of a space. I’m assuming you need to encode your message before sending it to the iSMS, but it would be nice to know what the iSMS is actually receiving because then we could determine why it falls over.

See section 2.2 of RFC 1738:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

This may also be of use:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

[Kamran Rana]

Hi Darrik

thanks your links help to solve my problem

I just added %20 to each word token where a space was needed before composing the sms message

best regards

kamran

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