<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 18/03/2010, at 21:54, Elazar Leibovich wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Oh boy! That's what just I feared would happen. I thought we would know better than that now.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure who "we" are exactly. Anyway, standardisation sometimes suppresses innovation. For example, if you standardise on a document format for spreadsheets, e.g. ods, you basically hurt software that represent data in an innovative way (for example, I used to use a spreadsheet program in which the data was in small grids, and these grids were connected by formulas - rather than the giant grid that contains formulas and data which we are used to).</div><div><br></div><div>But I suppose this is a political discussion so I'd better not pursue it.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div>One more question please. Is what you said relevant to receiving SMS? Is this usually done also through HTTP POST?</div> (And thanks alot! that's just the answer I sought.)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Receiving SMS is a hairy business. But basically, like receiving delivery notifications, you usually need to set up a web service for the provider to access and give you the messages. Some providers (my company included) also allow usage of e-mail rather than HTTP. Just don't expect messages longer than 70 character to come in intact. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, the bottom line is that you can do it on Linux quite well, but you can't standardise any of it. At best, you can offer an SMPP plugin as your default (there used to be other standards like UCP, but they are even more obsolete than SMPP nowadays). Even then, not all providers implement the standard in full so you need to be careful about the assumptions you make.</div><div><br></div><div>Herouth</div></body></html>