Re: Getting to grips with Kannel for SMS

Charlie Clark wrote:
> 
> just started playing with Kannel - the main installation is on a machine I
> don't have access to and I've a couple of questions. I'll be setting up my
> own test intall under Cygwin but it seems to need a crypto library which I
> don't have. Anybody know which package I need to install to use it?

Kannel does not require OpenSSL. But if you use a recent version of
Cygwin, you can install this too via Cygwin's setup.exe installation
process.

> I've downloaded and installed all the stuff, there seems to be something
> missing. From the documentation I assumed Kannel came with a bunch of
> cgi-scripts but this is evidently not the case. Are they available as an
> external resource? ie, the much-read "sendsms" or "dlr.php" My main
> interest is in status report and, having quickly browsed the mailing list
> archive, I see I'm not the only one struggling.

the /cgi-bin/sendsms is an URI within the HTTP servers. They are *not*
particular scripts that are executed. Don't think of an Apache cgi-bin
directory where you place a Perl (or whatever) script.

> Calling the SMS url and setting parameters works but not quite as I
> expected. It seems dlrurl will only ever return one parameter. How does the
> receiving service know which the status for which message and for which
> number? Is dlrurl only supposed to be used in special circumstances? Is it
> normal to work with external storage (ie. MySQL) when tracking status?

you should peek insde the code (gw/dlr.[ch]) in case the documentation
is not providing answers. And then, provide us a patch for the
userguide ;)

Stipe

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