Re: Meta-Data documentation

Hi Alex,

again...

.../sendsms?meta-data=URLENCODE(?URLENCODE(<smsc-type1>)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)&URLENCODE(key2)=URLENCODE(value2)&...?URLENCODE(<smsc-type2>)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1))&...

and for your example:
.../sendsms?meta-data=%3Fsmpp%3Fmydata%3DHello%2B%2526%2BGoodbye

Hope that's clear now.

Thanks,
Alex

Alejandro Guerrieri schrieb:
> Ok, got the new docs almost ready, but have a doubt over the encoding 
> for sendsms.
> 
> What happens if I want to send data with "=", "?" or "&" ? Should I 
> double-urlencode it?
> 
> For example, if I want to send "mydata=Hello Goodbye"
> 
> Over sendsms, I'd probably get away with this:
> 
> meta-data=%3Fsmpp%3Fmydata=
> Hello%20Goodbye
> 
> But, how do I code it if I want to send "mydata=Hello & Goodbye" or 
> anything carrying one of the delimiters? A single urlencoding won't do 
> the trick because the "&" inside the key/value pair would look identical 
> to the one separating the meta-data parameter from the rest.
> 
> Is the format like this then?:
> 
> URLENCODE(?URLENCODE(<smsc-type1>)?
> URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)&URLENCODE(key2)=URLENCODE(value2)&...?URLENCODE(<smsc-type2>)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)&...
> )
> 
> or in other words:
> 
> URLENCODE( <urlencoded meta-data string> )
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Stipe Tolj <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Alexander Malysh schrieb:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > great thanks!
>      >
>      > Could you please better describe meta-data format because it
>     unclear how
>      > to code it, here is the format accepted by meta-data patch:
>      >
>      > meta-data =
>     ?URLENCODE(group-name)?URLENCODE(key1)=URLENCODE(value1)...
>      >
>      > then if you send it e.g. for MT:
>      >
>      > .../sendsms?meta-data=URLENCODE(meta-data)
> 
>     great wok Alejandro.
> 
>     Agree'ing with Alex here. The encoding format of the HTTP GET
>     'meta-data' value
>     has to be clear from the user's guide, especially the usage of the
>     '?' question
>     marks to separate the SMSC protocol module parts of the whole string.
> 
>     In fact I would generalize like this:
> 
>      data =
>     ?<smsc-type1>?key1=value1&key2=value2&...?<smsc-type2>?key1=value1&...
>      meta-data = urlencode( data )
> 
>     Stipe
> 
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