On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Dipo Elegbede <delegb...@dudupay.com> wrote: > Hi peeps, > I am trying to write a code such that i can send an sms to a specific url > from my phone and get a reply back from the url. > I want the reply to be the content of the url I send to; what modules would > you advice. > I am testing with the url: http://www.dipoelegbede.com/msg.txt. > I have succeeded in writing a code that fetches the content of the page > using urllib and urllib2 but i still want a way to have my sms speak to the > url. > I will appreciate any help in this direction. Advices or links to > documentations would be fine. > Thank You. >
I'm not convinced that what you say you want to do is really what you want to do, so I may be off base here, but as far as I know, you can not send an SMS message to anything other than a phone number. Many cell providers offer email-sms-gateway services so that you can send an email to the email address that matches your phone, and the phone company turns the email into an SMS and sends it to your phone for you. If your carrier has an emaiil-to-sms gateway then its reasonably trivial to use urllib and capture a web page and send it to you. Its the remote control aspect that you have requested that has me stumped. A friend of mine runs a phone message service and he has a device hooked to his network that has an antenna on it that sends sms message directly on the carrier network. If you had one of these things (which I doubt you do) I'm sure you could reverse it and send an sms message directly to your network. But the work that would be required to set this up (not to mention the expense) seems like more trouble than it is worth. Sorry I wasn't more help. Rance _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
