SMS from web

SMS from Web means that SMS technology can be integrated into a website in order to send SMS messages from that website. Such a system based on a webserver to which an SMS gateway software is connected. The webserver and the SMS gateway communicates through HTTP. This way SMS messages are forwarded to the SMS gateway via HTTP and are finally sent to the recipient mobile phones.

SMS from Web this way refers to sending SMS messages with http requests. Usually, these systems offer a simple and easy-to-use method for SMS messaging from websites.

Web to SMS is popular because it allows individuals to use free SMS services on websites. Such free SMS services are usually based on SMS sending with HTTP requests.

HTTP API – the „sendmessage method”

HTTP API – the „sendmessage method”can be used to send various message types via an SMS Gateway software. A simple HTTP request needs to be specified in the web browser. In this HTTP request the message properties need to be specified.

In this HTTP method the following values need to be specified:
the recipient phone number, the message type and the message data. For example:

http://127.0.0.1:9801/api?action=sendmessage&username=admin&password=abc123& 
recipient=06203105366&messagetype=SMS:TEXT&messagedata=Hello+World

This HTTP request example calls the 'sendmessage' action: an SMS will be sent from the 127.0.0.1 computer via port 9801. The sender is the admin and its number can be configured in the SMS gateway. The recipient is the phone number and the message type is an SMS text message. Finally the message says: Hello World.

Since this is only an example values need to be specified according to the user’s specifications.

After receiving the HTTP request, the SMS system sends a response to the user about that the specified parameters have been processed:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 246

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
   <action>sendmessage</action>
   <data>
      <acceptreport>
        <statuscode>0</statuscode>
        <statusmessage>Message accepted for delivery</statusmessage>
        <messageid>ERFAV23D</messageid>
        <recipient>06201234567</recipient>
     </acceptreport>
   </data>
</response>

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