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cwtan
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 08:21 am: | |
i have program to return message via nowsms gateway and i have success to received the message, but the space in the message has been replaced by "+" sign, eg. "Thank you" became "Thank+you". Please anyone can tell me how to return the message without "+" sign.
Thank. |
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce
Post Number: 2357
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 05:35 pm: | |
NowSMS passes received message text to a 2-way command as a GET string in a URL request.
Space characters are not valid in a URL request, so they have to be escaped as "+".
This is standard URL escaping, so most scripting languages unescape the string in their parameter parsing.
If you do have to parse the URL manually, note the following ...
- "+" is unescaped to a space character
- If a "%" character is present, this indicates that two hex digits follow, representing the hex value of the character code being escaped. For example, if a "+" character appeared in text, it would be sent over HTTP as "%2B". So "%2B" in a URL parameter would be unescaped to "+".
Some of the more common escape sequences for characters can be found in a chart at the bottom of the following page:
http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/sending_messages/url_pa rameters_for_sending_messages.htm |
YamyNg
New member
Username: Yamyng
Post Number: 2
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2004 - 04:47 am: | |
i do not understand the explanation above. now my problem is sending an sms from nowsms to a mobile that all "space" is replaced by a "+" symbol. how do i remove this symbol "+" and the spacing is a normal blank.
i've tried %20 in my coding but unsuccessfully. i receive sms as "%20" and not a blank space. any help is much appreciated. thanks. |
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce
Post Number: 2388
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 12:16 am: | |
And I'm sorry, but I don't understand your question.
I think I need more detail about your configuration. Are you connecting to an HTTP based SMSC? (Even if you were, I see that we escape space as "%20" when we connect to an HTTP-based SMSC.)
Perhaps it would help me understand what you are experiencing if you could enable the debug log in NowSMS. Manually edit SMSGW.INI, and under the [SMSGW] section header, add Debug=Yes. Then restart the NowSMS service. Repeat the sending of the problem message.
Reply back with the content of the SMSDEBUG.LOG (or send it via e-mail to nowsms@now.co.uk).
-bn |
YamyNg
New member
Username: Yamyng
Post Number: 4
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 03:01 am: | |
I'm submit HTTP post to nowsms for sending out sms to mobile, but when the sms received and display on mobile, the sms blank space become '+' symbol. I use parameter "Text" for my message. |
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce
Post Number: 2397
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 04:09 pm: | |
Are you using HTTP POST or GET?
If you are using HTTP POST, there was an issue where we were not converting '+' to space properly. (The v5.50 beta release resolves this, download at http://www.nowsms.com/download/nowsms550.exe.)
All of our forms use HTTP GET. Do you encounter this problem when you send a message through our web form? Or is it only when you perform your own submit?
Could I see the SMSDEBUG.LOG that I referenced in my previous reply? That would help me understand ... |
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