From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-10-02T23:46:44+09:00
Subject: Re: http-access2 POSTing

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Andi Scharfstein wrote:

> Hi, I've been expecting a certain eMail for some time now, and I have never
> been good with waiting for mail. So, in order to have something to do to
> distract me from waiting, I decided to write a script that would forward the
> mail to my cellphone using SMS. I am using a German FreeSMS provider
> (http://www.myskoda.de) which doesn't expressly forbid automated use of its
> services, so it's kind of legal ;) So, after creating an account there, I
> tried writing my script, but it doesn't do what I want it to... I expect
> this is a result of my lack of understanding of HTTP messages. I am using
> http-access2 to access a form on the FreeSMS site that has the following
> structure:
>
> <FORM action="/emailsys/sms/sms.html" method="post" name="SendMessage">
> <SELECT name=network>
> <OPTION selected value="151">+49 151</OPTION>
> <OPTION value="160">+49 160</OPTION>
> </SELECT>
> <INPUT class=ftext maxLength=8 name=number size=20>
> <TEXTAREA cols=40 name=msg ></TEXTAREA>
> <INPUT TYPE="IMAGE" NAME="send_sms" SRC="../images/opt-hinzu.gif">
> </FORM>
>
> After logging in [client.get('http://www.myskoda.de/index.html', {"callname"
> => "mylogin", "password" => "mypass"})], which works as expected,

so sending the authentication this way works.

> I try to do the following:
> client.post('http://www.myskoda.de/emailsys/sms/sms.html', {"network" =>
> "151", "number" => "12345678", "msg" => text})

i don't know this api - but is the autentication information sent
(automatically) again here?  typically browsers do this for once you've done
it once, but i don't know if this object does that or not?

> where text is a string that does not exceed 147 chars (that's 160 chars
> maximum in a SMS message minus the MySkoda ad). This doesn't work: All I get
> is the same site again (which is OK, it's the same URL), but it should say
> "Message sent, now 4 messages left [for this month]", which it doesn't. Yes,
> I know that's a kind of unusual question. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Thanks: Andi S.
>

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