The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Net::UP::Notify
DSLIP: cdpOp
description: Sends Net Alerts to Cell Phone Web Browsers
userid: PTIMMINS (Paul Timmins)
chapterid: 5 (Networking_Devices_IPC)
communities:
similar:
Net::SMS Net::SMPP Net::SNPP
rationale:
The reason I chose Net::UP::Notify is that there are modules
(Net::SMS, NET::SMPP, and NET::SNPP) that do similar things to what
my module does under the Net namespace already. I chose UP because
the original browser in the cellular phone was made by a company
called "Unwired Planet", which has become "phone.com", and now
"Openwave" through acquisitions. I would rather not use phone.com or
Openwave because of trademark concerns and because Openwave still
calls their SDK (which is binary and requires Windows or Solaris)
the "UP SDK". Openwave already distributes a perl module via their
SDK that allows you to send Net Alerts, but the caveat in their
approach is that it runs in Windows only, and uses COM Automation of
a DLL from ActivePerl. Since this is incredibly not portable, I
reverse engineered the format and made a version that simply
requires LWP::UserAgent. I intend to eventually fully support a
portable version of the SDK under the Net::UP tree, but for now I
just have Net::UP::Notify. I wish I could retain interface
compatibility with their example code, but it's so broken and
convoluted because of the DLL automation that it would be
impossible.
Anyway, that's the story. :-)
enteredby: PTIMMINS (Paul Timmins)
enteredon: Sun Nov 9 16:37:46 2003 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Net::UP::
::Notify cdpOp Sends Net Alerts to Cell Phone Web Browsers PTIMMINS
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