Re: Obtaining the message ID set by the SMSC

On 26.09.2006, at 14:28, Ben Suffolk wrote:

>> I actually share this view. Having the SMSC's ID in hand can help  
>> a lot in such cases, especially when you dont want to go though  
>> gigabytes of logs. But the delivery reports have the ID's in them  
>> and this is the only feedback mechanism we have towards the sender.
>
> When you say the DLRs have the IDs in them, do you mean I can get  
> at them already, or that it would be relatively easy to add them  
> into the code for the URL call back as they exist in the internal  
> data structure for the DLR?

the message text in a SMPP dlr contains the ID
same is true for EMI / UCP. Just takes a bit of parsing to break them  
out of a message like

"The mesage 1233456789 to 012345 has been delivered at 00:11:22"


>> What for sure would be a big hassle is if we have to provide on  
>> the HTTP answer because at that point in time we dont have the  
>> message id in our hand (as we have not submitted the message yet).
>
> I can see that, and as long as you can access it via the DLRs then  
> its not really that much of an issue.
>
> Regards
>
> Ben