Sending text messages to mobiles

[Byron Morgan]

Thanks Richard,

I did originally look in that direction, but everything I found connected
only to European or Asian services. I'll dig a little further.

"Richard Jones" <rjones at ekit-inc.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1043192326.18030.python-list at python.org...
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:28 am, Byron Morgan wrote:
> > I am a Python newbie, building a Python app that monitors live data,
> > sending event-driven notifications to cellphones, pagers, email,
> > instant message clients. I have found and used Py-TOC, a clean
> > implementation of AOL's AIM services.
> >
> > My Question:
> > Has anyone done an interface to Yahoo! Messenger? I am particularly
> > interested because Yahoo! provides an easy cellular text messaging
> > gateway.
>
> There are plenty of sms gateways out there other than yahoo messenger.
Most
> (if not all) support a simple HTTPS system where you make a single HTTPS
GET
> request like:
>
>     data = urllib.urlencode({'userid': 'blah', 'password': 'sekrit',
>         'phone': mobile, 'message': message})
>     response = urllib2.urlopen('https://provider.com/send.cgi', data)
>
> Yes, that's all there is to it (assuming you've signed up with the
provider
> and bought some credits ;)
>
> A google search for "sms messaging gateway" will provide plenty of
providers
> to choose from. Things to look for are the cost per message and how they
> handle (and inform you of) error responses. You may also be interested in
> whether they provide a callback system from handset delivery confirmation.
Up
> to you.
>
>
>     Richard
>
>