Re: Idea for a program
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:01:41 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks for the info. I searched CPAN and found several SMS related
packages. Unfortunately, only one seemed to be for free web sites, and
I could not get it to work with a test message to my cell phone --
perhaps because the sites in its database are not US-based.
Jamal
On Thu, 19 Jun
2008, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:24:44 +0300
> From: Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Idea for a program
>
> Hi Jamal,
>
> If you want to send SMS and MMS messages, you could use perl.
>
> Search for sms with search.cpan.org and you wil find more than 100 perl
> modules that could help you to do what you want.
>
> Some of those perl modules just use some web sites that send the messages,
> but it is recommended to use those modules instead of the sites directly.
>
> Other modules could be used for sending messages more reliably, by directly
> contacting a server that sends SMS messages, a server which contacts a
> mobile phone operator, based on a contract or something like that, exactly
> what those public web sites that allow sending SMS do.
>
> The syntax used by some of those perl modules is very simple, but some of
> them might not work because some sites have more and more restrictions that
> don't allow sending an SMS.
>
> I also intended to make such a program a few years ago, but after I've seen
> that there is no reliable way to make a program work for more years for sure
> (for free), I abandoned that idea.
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:19 PM
> Subject: Idea for a program
>
>
> >I would like to develop a simple program that presents a dialog with an
> > edit box for a phone number and another for a message (as well as others
> > if needed), which then sends the text message to the (mobile) phone. Does
> > anyone know of a free API to do this? If you know of a free, accessible
> > program that already does this, which is efficient to use, than the need
> > may already be met. I do know of a web site that enables this freely via
> > a form,
> > http://TextAway.com
> >
> > Is it possible to automate the filling out of the form via a script? I do
> > not know enough about how such web scripting is done, and whether there
> > are security barriers that sites use to prevent this.
> >
> > This would be an open source project, so if anyone can help me get started
> > in any language, it could be a collaboration.
> >
> > Jamal
> >
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