Unfortunately you can't send binary messages using the Betavine API.

Sending text messages is restricted to ASCII characters.

Sorry,

Owen.

Hello,

We try to send sms with some control characters(ASCII characters < 32). Included as normal text, the request fails with an 403 error from the server. So we tried to encode the control characters in the form %xy where x and y are the hexadecimal representation of the byte. Like it's done in Java and C# when encoding an url (we are using C#). The content type for the http request is set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. But still we get that 403 error.

Is there a possibility to send sms with included control characters or is it possible to send binary data with the api?

Karsten

You actually need to set the user agent to be something. The error is occurring because you don't have one.

Ok, so I understood that something like this should be added:
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('User-Agent: ""'));

...however, I'm still getting the same "302: document has moved here" message.

Could anyone provide a simple example of sending a "Hello world" SMS, etc. -- with/without CURL? I'd like to get it working in some way. Thanks!

Ok. So you'll need to set a 'User-Agent' header for your CURL requests. So use the setopt function.

Sure, if you can make something out of it. I'm using it with a cURL lib (curl.php), so it's not all in one place.

Anyway, here's the code with the URL:
<?php
include_once('curl.php');

$cURL = new cURL();

$URI = "http://www.betavine.net/api/send/sms?uaid=MY_KEY&dest=MY_NUMBER&message=Hello";

$smsresult = $cURL->get($URI);

// Print return code
echo "<pre>";
print_r($smsresult);
echo "</pre>";
?>


These options are set for cURL elsewhere:
CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE


--Tatu

Can you post your code which you use to call the API here?