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mikerowehl
Mowser

25/2/08 6:37 PM

Always getting error code 4 back

I'm trying to use the APIs to test out sending SMS to myself. I tried sending requests using a developer key, and if I understand the reference docs correctly a URL like the following should work:

http://www.vodafonebetavine.net/api/send/...
...sms.xml?auid=DEVAUID&message=miketesting...
&dest=+16507146444

But I always get an error code 4 from that. I also tried generating a Mashup key and using that instead of my developer key, but same thing. Can the APIs only be used to send to Vodafone users? Or am I doing something else wrong?

- Miker

OwenGriffin
Vodafone Research & Development

26/2/08 8:39 AM

RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to mikerowehl

mikerowehl:

I'm trying to use the APIs to test out sending SMS to myself. I tried sending requests using a developer key, and if I understand the reference docs correctly a URL like the following should work:

http://www.vodafonebetavine.net/api/send/...
sms.xml?auid=DEVAUID&message=miketesting...
&dest=+16507146444

But I always get an error code 4 from that. I also tried generating a Mashup key and using that instead of my developer key, but same thing.

Your developer key will not send messages. It is designed only for testing purposes. The developer key will behave exactly like a mashup key. The mashup key however will send messages.

A error code 4 is an invalid parameter. I noticed from the URL you have posted you have a prefixed a + at the beginning of the number. Try again without the +.

mikerowehl:

Can the APIs only be used to send to Vodafone users?

The API should send text messages to any operator.

mikerowehl
Mowser

26/2/08 6:38 PM

RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to OwenGriffin

It was actually a typo in the url, I had auid instead of uaid, swapping to JSON encoding made the error return more obvious. It says it's delivering messages when I use my mashup key now, and it's subtracting credits from my account. But I'm not actually getting the messages. Anyone tried using the API to deliver messages to ATT/Cingular in the US?

- Mike

OwenGriffin
Vodafone Research & Development

26/2/08 9:37 PM

RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to mikerowehl

mikerowehl:

If this turns out to be a connectivity problem on our side I'm sure we can just top up your credits.

mikerowehl:

Anyone tried using the API to deliver messages to ATT/Cingular in the US?

I have not tested it. We don't have access to an ATT/Cingular SIM. I will investigate to see if any of your messages are failing.

OwenGriffin Vodafone Research & Development	26/2/08 9:43 PM RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to OwenGriffin Would you be able to provide a date and time when you last sent a message to an ATT/Cingular SIM so I can look at the logs more closely? Thanks.
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mikerowehl
Mowser

27/2/08 8:33 PM

RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to OwenGriffin

Hey Owen, thanks for the offer, here are the details for a message I sent at 12:30pm Pacific time. This is the command I used to generate the request:

curl 'http://www.vodafonebetavine.net/api/send/sms.xml?uaid=2m8xlc51c6p3zkbyxggdivvel5fqu2qv&message=miketesting&dest=16507146444'

and here is the response, it has a transaction id and all, hopefully it'll make it easy to dig out:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response version="1.1">
<method>send/sms</method>
<status>OK</status>
<transaction>
<id>5793</id><messages>
<message><id>5624</id><status>1</status>
<deliveredAt></deliveredAt><sentAt>2008-02-27 20:31:07.0</sentAt></message>
</messages></transaction>
</response>

mikerowehl Mowser	3/3/08 1:27 AM RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to mikerowehl Anyone have any ideas here? I tested it out again to see if it was a transient problem, but still the same thing. The message is reported as delivered, a credit is deducted, but no message makes it through to my phone.
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mikerowehl Mowser	4/3/08 2:46 PM RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to mikerowehl Still not getting messages through. Anyone?
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OwenGriffin Vodafone Research & Development	4/3/08 3:52 PM RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to mikerowehl mikerowehl: Still not getting messages through. Anyone? I've contacted the guys who run the SMS gateway and they are looking into it. The Betavine API appears to be sending the messages successfully. Sorry for the delay.
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mikerowehl Mowser	4/3/08 11:50 PM RE: Always getting error code 4 back as a reply to OwenGriffin Thanks Owen! I'll keep checking back.
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