Re: SMPP 3.4 C-Octet String Termination

Alan McNatty <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex,

Have experienced SMSC that did this. In our case it was configurable on
SMSC - eventually it was turned off. It may be worth seeing if you can
do the same (given the SMSC's adding it).

Cheers,
Alan

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 03:52, Alex Judd wrote:
> We're working with a SMPP 3.4 server that validly (according to the 3.4
> specs) terminates the C-Octet Strings it sends us with a NULL character.
> This currently isn't handled directly by Kannel and ends up as an extra
> character on the message content.
> 
> For example a message of AAA, length 3, now arrives at Kannel as AAA@,
> length 4 [which is obviously wrong]
> 
> I've made a short term workaround to remove the character by using the
> octstr_strip_nonalphanums on the msg-sms.msgdata however I'm interested in
> whether everyone thinks Kannel should strip off this null character (like I
> do) or whether this should occur at application level?
> 
> If it's Kannel I'll submit a proper patch
> 
> Alex
> Skywire
> http://www.skywire.co.uk/
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