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WAP Gateway Blocks BlackBerry App World
It has come to our attention that the default configuration setting for the NowWAP WAP Gateway blocks users from connecting to BlackBerry App World. The reason for this seems to be some unusual...
View ArticleUpdate Patch – 2010.11.26
An update patch release of the Now SMS & MMS Gateway is now available for download at http://www.nowsms.com/download/nowsms20101126.zip. This ZIP file contains an EXE file that can be used to...
View ArticleShift Tables – National Language SMS in 160 characters without Unicode
The fact that messages that contain characters outside of the GSM character set require Unicode encoding and are limited to 70 characters per message instead of the expected 160 character limit, is a...
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iPhone MMS Message Send Failure on GPRS and EDGE
We’ve recently investigated a problem reported by a NowSMS MMSC customer where iPhone 4 users were reporting a high volume of failed MMS message sending. Our investigation suggests that this problem is...
View ArticleSend SMS from PHP Script (Updated)
Quite a few people use the PHP script that Bryce provided 7-1/2 years ago for sending an SMS message through NowSMS from PHP. Over the years, we’ve added a few comments to clarify how the script is to...
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NowWAP and HTTP Header Enrichment (HHE)
The HTTP Header Enrichment (HHE) capability provides solutions for a content provider to identify a subscriber. Basic HHE allows the subscriber to be identified by their MSISDN. Aliased HHE allows the...
View ArticleMigrating from another vendor’s MMSC
Customers frequently inquire about the complexity of migrating from an existing MMSC installation to NowSMS. Is it possible to do this with minimal impact to their subscribers? In most cases, this is...
View ArticleNowSMS and SSL Certificate Chains
If you have purchased an SSL certificate from a certificate authority for use on a NowSMS server, you may encounter a problem with some browsers displaying a warning or refusing to accept the...
View ArticleBasic MMS SMIL Tutorial
A recent thread on the NowSMS discussion board made my head hurt: MMS: first shows a picture and then the text It started off simple enough. If you send an MMS message using the simple web form in...
View ArticleNowSMS Update – 2011.03.21
An interim update release of the Now SMS & MMS Gateway is currently available at http://www.nowsms.com/download/nowsms20110321.zip. Use the executable file in this ZIP to update an existing NowSMS...
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Using PHP Scripts to Extend NowSMS
PHP scripts are a great tool for integrating NowSMS into another application environment, or extending the functionality of NowSMS. PHP scripts are often used for 2-way SMS or MMS processing, providing...
View ArticleSMPP TLV Parameters for Advanced Message Routing
There has been some interesting recent discussion about the use of optional SMPP TLV parameters to help facilitate message routing between SMS hubs. Some of this discussion can be found at the...
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NowWAP Statistics Reports
The log files created by NowWAP are of a text format that follows the common log format for web servers. These log files are stored on the NowWAP server, with one log file created for each day, using a...
View ArticleSMS Distribution Lists with PHP
An earlier post described the HTTP URL formats for working with NowSMS distribution lists. This post provides some example PHP functions that can be used to simplify this process. Now that NowSMS can...
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NowSMS Update Release 2011.07.05
An updated release of the Now SMS & MMS Gateway is currently available at http://www.nowsms.com/download/nowsms20110705.zip. Use the executable file in this ZIP to update an existing NowSMS...
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Multiple SMPP Connections to One SMSC
Although it is possible for SMPP Asynchronous connections to process hundreds of SMS messages per second, sometimes there are performance gains by having more than one SMPP connection to the same SMSC....
View ArticleInternational Prefix Conversion for SMS
There are many situations where end users submit messages using local number formats, but the upstream SMSC connection requires that the message be submitted using an international format (e.g.,...
View ArticleRepairing a Corrupt MMSC User Database
We recently had a customer whose MMSC stopped automatically provisioning new users. The MMSC user database had become corrupt, preventing new users from being able to be automatically provisioned....
View ArticleNowSMS Status Query with PHP
Previous articles have described the XML-based status query interface that can be used to programmatically retrieve information about the current status of NowSMS. The XML-based status query interface...
View ArticleNowWAP: Enabling Cookies for HTTP Header Enrichment
NowWAP HTTP Header Enrichment (HHE) is described in more detail in the following article: http://www.nowsms.com/nowwap-and-http-header-enrichment In addition to the HHE issues discussed in that...
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