Charlie Clark wrote: > > On 2003-04-03 at 22:40:45 [+0200], you wrote: > > 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. > > libssl, libxml (Gnome not expat) are required. While it's nice that you > provide the Cygwin dist as binaries it would be nicer to have a note of the > necesary Cygwin components. Installation shouldn't be a rite of passage.
ahh, ok it was the binary package. I thought of you were compiling on your own. > I'd kind of figured this out. I've looked a bit at the sources. Eek! c, > perl, php and Python... what a mix! I wasn't expecting the Spanish > inquisition! ;-) Is the stuff in "/contrib" examples? Kannel is only C. There are some contributed things in the contrib/ directory that use different languages, but consider contrib/ *not* part of Kannel. > C isn't my specialty but I think I understand what dlr.* does: creates and > updates DLR records for msgs to individual MSISDNs. This makes sense and > seems reasonable. > > What I still don't quite get is is how "dlrurl" is supposed to work: if it > is part of the gateway it would seem unnecessary to have it as a parameter > as if it's external URL/URI but on the other hand as an external URL I > would expect to be able to pass it user-definable parameters, ie. allow > external users to track their own messages even without access to the DLR > store. Ok, when you send a message (MT) to a device using the sendsms HTTP interface you specify via 'dlrurl' which URL Kannel should lookup when he receives the delivery report. Which means, this is the mechanism to "inform" your external entities that the messages they issued has arrived. Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Vogelsanger Weg 80 40470 D�sseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are
