Hi Marcel, 2010/9/8 Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org>: >> + void RegisterAgent(object path, string type) >> + >> + Registers an agent to handle received messages. >> + >> + The object path defines the path of the agent that >> + will be called when a message is ready to be >> + dispatched. The type parameters accepts a MIME >> + type of the messages this agent is willing to >> + accept. Some common types include: >> + >> + "text/plain" - Regular text messages >> + "text/x-vcard" - vCard objects >> + "text/calendar" - vCalendar objects >> + "application/vnd.oma.push" - WAP push >> + "application/x-sms-agent" - Any datagram >> + >> + Wildcards are not allowed as the MIME subtype, but >> + registering an agent on a generic port is supported. >> + For instance, to listen on port 5678, the agent >> + would need to register using type: >> + >> + "application/x-sms-agent;port=5678" > > so my obvious question here is, what kind of x-sms-agent type > applications do you expect? The need for text, vcard, vcalendar and push > messages is pretty clear. I still haven't figured out what other > applications are out there that we want do support with this. Can you > please give us some concert examples.
Example: a voice and video over IP client that doesn't drain the battery in half a day. My server sends a wakeup over SMS on an incoming call. Example: a device lock service. I send a binary SMS to my stolen phone on a well-known port containing a cryptographic token, causing my phone to lock and/or wipe itself clean. Fact is, SMS is still the most widely available and power-efficient rendezvous service on a mobile phone. It would be silly not to support it to its full potential. > I think that everybody else has abandoned any other SMS message types. Quite the contrary. Every other mobile telephony API out there that I know of has the ability to send and receive binary messages on an arbitrary port. Cheers, Aki _______________________________________________ ofono mailing list ofono@ofono.org http://lists.ofono.org/listinfo/ofono
