Dan and I have checked out how to use SendSMS (as of version 3.9) with an http-proxy that requires user authentication. As it turned out, this is already supported by the used Perl-packages that do the networking.
To use it, you have to include your username and password in the proxy definition, e.g. by adding a line like the following to your ~/.sendsmsrc http_proxy http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1234/ (http_proxy can be shortened to proxy.) If your password is 'simple' that's all; you're ready to send SMs. Otherwise read on... It is not unlikely that your password contains characters which are special for URLs and/or Perl, so these have to be escaped/encoded properly. I'll show how to find out the encoded version of your password using Perl or Tcl. I'll use bash-syntax in the following. First assign the password: PW='a@:$%#"&<Z'; With ' in your password you'll have to quote with " and possibly use some backslashes \: PW="a'=:\$&>}Z"; Now the follow Perl command works for some words... perl -e "use URI::Escape; print uri_escape('$PW'),\"\\n\";" with the first example it returns a%40%3A%24%25%23%22%26%3CZ but is doesn't encode ! and has problems with ' (probably from the shell parsing). If Tcl and the ngci library are installed you can use instead echo 'package require ncgi;set pw [read -nonewline stdin];puts $pw;puts [ncgi::encode $pw]'>encodepw tclsh encodepw which I found working for everything I tried including embedded spaces. Enter your password followed by the return-key and CTRL-d. Examples: a@:$%#"&<Z a%40%3A%24%25%23%22%26%3CZ a'=:$&>}Z a%27%3D%3A%24%26%3E%7DZ For "!" and " " there's a little disagreement ! ? results in %21+%3F from Tcl's ncgi, but in !%20%3F from Perl's URI. I didn't check what is actually correct. - Daniel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
