I think it will be much simpler if you code a script from zero,
instead of having to translate every wap page into an SMS (which may
end up in more than 160 chars).

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Carlos Ruiz Diaz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank for the reply Stipe.
> Let me explain myself better with an example, maybe there was something
> wrong with my bad English :).
> I want to send the following kind of messages to the users:
> ----------------------------
> Make your choice:
> A. Vote for Carlos
> B. Vote for Augusto
> ----------------------------
> if the user sends me a reply with an "A" or "B" I want to send:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> You have selected the option "A|B"
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> and if not:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> No such option
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> I already have a wap page for the above example and but I don't know if
> there exists a way to translate it transparently to interactive SMS or I
> should write my own system using sms services with keywords like "A", "B".
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Stipe Tolj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Alejandro Guerrieri schrieb:
>> > Carlos,
>> >
>> > Of course you could program a system that responds an SMS with a
>> > wap-push that points to a particular wap page, but I'm not sure if
>> > that's what you're trying to achieve. Could you please clarify further?
>> >
>> > Regarding sending wap pages using SMS transport, that sounds a lot like
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is precisely that (a subste of wml over SMS 
>> > transport). If
>> > that's the case, Kannel cannot help you on that department, you'd need a
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gateway for that.
>>
>> what is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any URL reference for that?
>>
>> A WAP Push can have a WML conent-type as payload. From a protocol
>> architecture
>> this is possible, as the PPG (push proxy gateway) knows how to encode
>> this.
>>
>> The problem is (like most times) on the device side. I don't know exactly
>> how
>> many devices are out there that DO support WAP push messages, but KNOW how
>> to
>> interpret WML pushed payload too. Obviously they know how to display WML,
>> using
>> the browser component in the device. But the WAP Push component has
>> usually an
>> "own browser" that does the handling. So there is no nice "registry mime
>> type"
>> correlation as we know if from the Windows world ;)
>>
>> In addition USSD may be used for what you intend to do. But this requires
>> again
>> more dependencies in the core network structure and a dedicated USSD
>> gateway too.
>>
>> The way I would do it:
>>
>> - let the user initiate, via a normal MO SMS keyword
>> - send a WAP push SI (session indication) to the user, this will pop up on
>> the
>> screen and ask the user if he wants to make his decission.
>> - the user can either say "yes" or "no", yes means opening the embeded
>> URL.
>> - and the URL is your WML deck with the decision A or B.
>>
>> This has the benefits:
>>
>> a) you know that SI documents work on any WAP push capable phones, no
>> failures.
>> b) adding a session ID to the URL in the SI, maps the MSISDN of the user
>> into
>> your application, so when the user "comes into" the application you know
>> who it
>> is by MSISDN number, which makes later notifications or other SMS
>> transmissions
>> MT wise very easy to him
>>
>> Stipe
>>
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