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Your Upside Wireless account can accept incoming SMS messages in several ways. For example, whenever you send a message, the recipient can reply to it as many times as he/she likes within the 7-day period. Alternatively, you may have a Short Code or a VirtualSMS assigned to your account. In this case, any message that arrives to your dedicated Short Code or VirtualSMS is directed your your Inbox.
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With our service you can collect incoming SMS messages from your customers and have these messages forwarded directly to your application using a common '''HTTP-POST''' protocol. Here a several examples:
Once in your Inbox, these messages are subject to the forwarding rules that you previously created in your account. For example, you may instruct your account to forward all incoming messages to one or more email addresses. Similarly, incoming messages can also be forwarded to an external application using HTTP-POST method. This document discusses several ways you can extract incoming SMS messages into your application so that you can apply additional business logic.
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* [[MO POP3]]
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* Voting
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* VoIP Call origination
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* Customer support
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* Sales reporting
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* Instant Messaging
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* Telemetry and many more
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To receive text messages, senders need a number to which they can send them. There are two options for you to receive incoming messages. You can use a
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* Shared short or long code or
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* Dedicated [[VirtualSMS]] or dedicated short code
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Please contact us to discuss which option would work the best in your situation.  
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Incoming SMS messages are first directed into your account (Inbox). From there, these messages can be forwarded to you using email or HTTP-POST. You can also collect them by using standard POP3 protocol. See below links for details on using HTTP-POST:
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* [[MO HTTP]]
 
* [[MO HTTP]]
 
* [[MO HTTPS]]
 
* [[MO HTTPS]]
  
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Alternatively, you can leave messages on the server and then pick them up occasionally using standard POP3 client or protocol.
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*[[MO POP3 |POP3 ]]
  
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PLEASE NOTE - YOUR APPLICATION MUST IMPLEMENT HTTP-POST processing NOT HTTP-GET
  
 
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Revision as of 15:23, 28 May 2009

With our service you can collect incoming SMS messages from your customers and have these messages forwarded directly to your application using a common HTTP-POST protocol. Here a several examples:

  • Voting
  • VoIP Call origination
  • Customer support
  • Sales reporting
  • Instant Messaging
  • Telemetry and many more

To receive text messages, senders need a number to which they can send them. There are two options for you to receive incoming messages. You can use a

  • Shared short or long code or
  • Dedicated VirtualSMS or dedicated short code

Please contact us to discuss which option would work the best in your situation.

Incoming SMS messages are first directed into your account (Inbox). From there, these messages can be forwarded to you using email or HTTP-POST. You can also collect them by using standard POP3 protocol. See below links for details on using HTTP-POST:

Alternatively, you can leave messages on the server and then pick them up occasionally using standard POP3 client or protocol.

PLEASE NOTE - YOUR APPLICATION MUST IMPLEMENT HTTP-POST processing NOT HTTP-GET


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