Nokia N9 Unable to Receive MMS
It has come to our attention that there is a bug in the MMS client of the Nokia N9 which can prevent this phone from being able to receive MMS messages from a NowSMS MMSC. The problem occurs because the MMS client cannot process an MMS notification message where the MMS Content URL contains a URL escaped parameter. When the MMS client encounters a URL escaped parameter in a URL, it re-encodes...
Read MoreSend MMS from C# .NET
A .NET C# example for sending MMS messages via NowSMS has been posted at the following link: https://nowsms.com/download/sendmms.c#.txt For a VB.NET version of this example, please see the related article Send MMS from VB.NET. MMS examples for other environments (PHP, Java, command line) can be found at https://nowsms.com/sending-mms-messages-with-nowsms. As discussed in Sending MMS Messages...
Read MoreSend MMS from VB.NET
A VB.NET example for sending MMS messages via NowSMS has been posted at the following link: https://nowsms.com/download/sendmms.vb.txt For a C# .NET version of this example, please see the related article Send MMS from C# .NET. MMS examples for other environments (PHP, Java, command line) can be found at https://nowsms.com/sending-mms-messages-with-nowsms. As discussed in Sending MMS Messages...
Read MoreNowWAP: Enabling Cookies for HTTP Header Enrichment
NowWAP HTTP Header Enrichment (HHE) is described in more detail in the following article: https://nowsms.com/nowwap-and-http-header-enrichment In addition to the HHE issues discussed in that article, we frequently receive questions about using HTTP Cookie headers for identifying the MSISDN. These questions are usually asked for the following reasons: Customers migrating from or augmenting an...
Read MoreNowSMS Status Query with PHP
Previous articles have described the XML-based status query interface that can be used to programmatically retrieve information about the current status of NowSMS. The XML-based status query interface that reports information similar to what is reported on the “Status” page of the NowSMS configuration dialog. The query results include information about SMSC connection status, the number of...
Read MoreRepairing a Corrupt MMSC User Database
We recently had a customer whose MMSC stopped automatically provisioning new users. The MMSC user database had become corrupt, preventing new users from being able to be automatically provisioned. While it is not known why this corruption occurred, the most common potential cause is an abnormal system shutdown, such as power failure. Future versions of the MMSC will include start-up logic to...
Read MoreInternational Prefix Conversion for SMS
There are many situations where end users submit messages using local number formats, but the upstream SMSC connection requires that the message be submitted using an international format (e.g., include a country code and possibly require TON=1 for SMPP connections). For example, an end user in the UK might want to send an SMS message to 0777777777 using the local number format, but the upstream...
Read MoreMultiple SMPP Connections to One SMSC
Although it is possible for SMPP Asynchronous connections to process hundreds of SMS messages per second, sometimes there are performance gains by having more than one SMPP connection to the same SMSC. This is especially the case if the SMSC has per connection speed limits, or other performance limiting characteristics. It may also be necessary to specify more than one SMPP connection to the...
Read MoreNowSMS Update Release 2011.07.05
An updated release of the Now SMS & MMS Gateway is currently available at https://nowsms.com/download/nowsms20110705.zip. Use the executable file in this ZIP to update an existing NowSMS installation. This document details the update release history since the previous official release, version 2010.11.04. Release history for the changes prior to the current official release can be found...
Read MoreSMS Distribution Lists with PHP
An earlier post described the HTTP URL formats for working with NowSMS distribution lists. This post provides some example PHP functions that can be used to simplify this process. Now that NowSMS can support PHP scripts natively without a separate web server, it is even easier to prototype SMS applications with NowSMS. In this example, we’ll use these example PHP functions to allow users...
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