Re: Connection failed ?

On Freitag, September 19, 2003, at 11:22  Uhr, Stamatopoulos Panagiotis 
([email protected]) wrote:

> Stipe,
>
> Thanks for the response, BUT this is not exactly what I am asking for. 
> I
> already implemented the scenario you describe (could not fetch). In my
> scenario the HTTP request is delivered to the HTTP server, BUT BEFORE 
> the
> HTTP server delivers the expected response to kannel, the connection 
> goes
> down.

who brings the connection down? Is it because kannel doesnt wait long 
enough or because the server closes down.
It can also be a proxy server or firewall in the middle which cuts...

> So kannel thinks that everything is ok (it delivered the http request
> sucessfully), BUT it gets no response-SMS and the user receives 
> nothing in
> his mobile (as the connection is down).
> Any further ideas ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Connection failed ?
>
>
>> An SMS is sent from a user's mobile phone to kannel. Kannel 
>> identifies the
>> specific service, and a URL is requested via the GET-method. Kannel
> expects
>> the response from the URL, BUT, the connection between kannel and HTTP
>> Server is lost, BEFORE kannel receives the response SMS, that is 
>> supposed
> to
>> return as an answer to user. Is there any way to handle this 
>> situation,
> e.g.
>> sending an SMS to the user after waiting for 2 or 3 minutes and not 
>> having
> a
>> response from the HTTP server? I understand that kannel can handle 
>> some
>> situations like requestfailed, couldnotfetch, requestfailed, 
>> emptymessage,
>> but I don't think that can handle the above scenario. Am I correct?
>> Do you have any ideas ? Waiting for your response. Thanks in advance
>
> yes, Kannel (or specifically the smsbox) can handle this. smsbox can
> have an HTTP request queueing mechanism where you can have several
> tries to deliver the HTTP request to the HTTP server. Please see
> user's guide for configuration directives.
>
> Now as smsbox will tried all HTTP GETs as failed, when no answer is
> given, it will retry to N times that you can configure. If it fails
> for all N times, then the smsbox will pass a "could not fetch" message
> to the user via bearerbox.
>
> Stipe
>
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