Hi, You probably have a problem in your exec code. Since it is a different process it doesn't affect kannel and only the server or its target. Mind posting it?
BR, Nikos ----- Original Message ----- From: David To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:00 PM Subject: HELP! Patent claim! Can we use an alternate protocol? Hello, Us users of SMS Shortcodes are getting hit in the US for violating a patent by TCS Inc. The patent claims to cover: "A gateway, comprising: a first communication path to accept a short message from a mobile device; a translation module to insert said short message into an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message; a second communication path to push said HTTP message to at least one Universal Resource Locator (URL); and a return communication path to receive a return message relating to said HTTP message." The patent goes on to mention a whole bunch of stuff, ie, using HTTP POST to send the http message, etc. I just got out of a meeting with my lawyer. He says, the only way to get around this is to NOT use HTTP. Over the weekend, I tried to use the sms-service using EXEC instead of GET-URL, which worked fine... and then the server crashed... i'm guessing too many spawned processes? My question to you all is: how can we NOT use HTTP but have the same end result? ideally, it would use a command-line exec, but push it into a waiting server, instead of spawning a new thread. Does anybody have any ideas on how to do this? Thank you very much, David
