Re: SMPP bug?

Hi,

just harmless warning, user should ignore it...

Ian Cass wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> One of our customers recently asked what this message "SMPP: PDU NUL
> terminated string has no NUL." (smpp_pdu.c) in his Kannel log file meant.
> I dug through the Kannel code & found that Kannel always expects a
> submit_sm_resp to have a null terminated message_id field (smpp_pdu.def).
> 
> SMPP v3.4 specification, section 4.4.2 (submit_sm_resp) says :-
> 
> "The submit_sm_resp PDU Body is not returned if the command_status field
> contains a non-zero value.".
> 
> Yes, amazingly, a mandatory field is actually not mandatory in some
> circumstances. For several years, our SMPP SMSC always returned an empty
> message_id (just a \0) when the submit_sm_resp header held an error, but
> someone pointed out that this was wrong & that I should be returning only
> the header. I checked some other large vendors smsc's & proved that this
> was actually true, so I fixed our SMSC.
> 
> There's no logic in Kannel to differentiate success or non-success
> submit_sm_resp.
> 
> I guess this is harmless. I don't actually use Kannel day to day. I assume
> things will carry on as normal & this is purely a warning message?
> 
> --
> Ian Cass

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Thanks,
Alex