my php script is this really, really long php script that controls all
logic in our company. my concern is that having 10+ running copies of
the php script (vs being handled by apache which probably does a better
job of managing overhead) caused the server to crash (or kannel to be
unresponsive. the command i had is:
exec = "/var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/exec.php msg=%a phone=%p shortcod
e=%P operatorid=%o metadata=%D >/dev/null 2>&1"
now looking at it, if I add a "&" to the end, would that fix it as it detaches
the process? ie:
exec = "/var/www/vhosts/.../httpdocs/exec.php msg=%a phone=%p shortcode=%P
operatorid=%o metadata=%D >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
--- On Thu, 2/12/09, Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: HELP! Patent claim! Can we use an alternate protocol?
To: dbw1...@yahoo.com, users@kannel.org
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 1:39 PM
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: users@kannel.org
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
