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sms timeouts
From: |
Pavel Machek |
Subject: |
sms timeouts |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:27:55 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
Hi!
> Let me tell the story again. When you send SMS it is pushed to SMSC.
> Probably you noticed that the phone wait some time and blinks on the
> screen with "SMS sent" or "SMS failed". This is the result of the SMSC
> response. SMSC is some box that processes the incoming messages and
> forwards them somewhere (or discards). You can imagine that when SMSC is
> overloaded (or how they say these days DoSed ;-)) it will take more time
> to process all messages. It means also that it may take more time to
> receive the response from SMSC. Note that "SMS sent" means only that SMSC
> confirms that it received given SMS message.
>
> Gnokii now waits given timeout for the response. In some cases it is not
> enough time for SMSC. Then we got "timeout" error. The alternative (used
> by Marcin) is to wait forever unless the user cancels it. Looks good, but
> has few disadvantages. It is completly useless for applications like
> smsd. It requires giving control to the application for the issue that
> should be handled by the lower level. It blocks the application (it needs
> to check the responses from the phone regularly).
>
> Any opinions on this?
I do not think waiting forever is good idea. Waiting 2 minutes than
giving up might be the right thing to do.
Pavel
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- sms timeouts,
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