Dave White wrote: > > Stipe Tolj wrote: > > > Bruno David Rodrigues wrote: > > > >>Is it worth to code it now that new gprs phones don't have wap over sms > >>option ? > >> > > > > BTW, has anyone ever seems something working with a commercial WAP GW > > and a real phone?!?! > > > > Yes, you can, and yes, I have, using Kannel as my G/W. > > Writing a NAT-like service that maps SMS MSISDNs to UDP port numbers is > easy; once you deal with gathering the concatenated SMS data together to > form a complete WDP message, you can then send it over the proxy to any > UDP/IP WAP gateway, and pick up the request. You will also need to make > sure you cache the "originating port" param from the application port > addressing UDH IE for when you get the answer and are ready to send the > SMs to the phone. > > Connectionless WSP is quite easy, and works "out of the box" with > Kannel. Connection-oriented WSP over such a proxy crashes wapbox, which > seems to gag on the WTP originating address data. > > As for usefulness -- hmm. I largely used this as a test case for the > bidirectional concatenation support for my (company's) SMS gateway. If > you make liberal use of "TP-MMS", you can improve the performance from > c. 60-90 seconds for a request to c. 10-15 seconds. (Paging operations > cost a lot in GSM.) > > Newer phones only support USSD, true -- but some of those nasty SMSC > application protocols (CIMD2 and SMPP come to mind) can be also used > with some modifications with a "USSD Center" or with a pager network. > > Thus, supporting WAP/SMS actually *does* make some sense -- it will > reduce the effort needed to do WAP/USSD, or support smart pagers.
sounds like you did this already using portions of Kannel?! Can you contribute this to the group? Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Münsterstr. 248 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are
