On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:48:50AM -0500, David Nolan wrote: > You might find that your cellular providers provide a way to verify text > message delivery, if you're using their web message submission forms. But > thats problematic because they're likely to redesign their web pages on a > whim, so scripting the web interaction will be problematic.
I wrote the "pageomat" script around four or five years ago, which automates transactions with Web sites of cell phone and pager providers for sending pages - the only changes I've had to make are to the Web site addresses when the providers buy each other up, the actual transaction code has been very stable. This was a surpise to me, since I also expected the vendors to redesign things on a whim. It's not a big deal anymore since I added the fallback code - if the vendor changes their web page, pageomat errors off (the same way it would if the web site was unreachable) and sends the page via dialup modem instead (i.e. gives it to qpage). > SkyTel's SNPP server provides delivery confirmation information if you use > two-way pagers. InfoRad maintains a good list of paging methods for most providers: http://www.inforad.com/snpp_adds.html And Googling for the name of your provider and "TAP" or "IXO" usually turns up their dialup number, if they have one. With some persistent searching, I discovered a TAP dialup for one provider who claimed up and down that they didn't have one. It also occurs to me that since cell phones almost always show the number of the calling party, just seeing a phone call from the data center outgoing line might be enough of an alarm in most cases. Not as user-friendly as text-to-speech, but a lot simpler to implement. _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
