RE: Paging software for the iSeries

I am the original poster.

Actually, email may be down a lot more than the lan line / TCP itself. 
That whole native iSeries MSF / SMTP stuff is very thin on reliability. 
It's a cr@p shoot to get it to start automatically.  Starts doing a 
chicken and egg thing over who's supposed to start first.  And one big 
thing, if disk exceeds threshold then it dies, but I don't think that TCP 
as a whole dies.

Formatting for each website does sound disgusting.  Especially I can see 
how most web hacks would rearrange the fields on the screen just to seem 
productive.  I bet it would be as bad as using links to IBM url's   :-)  
(Hey may, if they're not doing it by hand, they're not seeing our flaming 
logo's!)


Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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> I am not familiar with Scott's program/API, however when dealing with an
> HTTP interface to a paging company, your program has to take the place 
of
> the browser and the human running the browser. So if that is something
> HTTPAPI would help with, then it would be ideal.

It would help, yes.


> The tedious part, even with a helpful toolkit on your side, is that 
every
> paging company is almost certain to have a different web page(s) for
> submitting pager messages. Therefore you're probably looking at a 
separate
> chunk of code for each paging company that you need to submit pages 
through.

Exactly.  That's the part that you'd have to write yourself, formatting
the messages appropriately for each paging company.

But, I thought one of the goals that the original poster mentioned was
doing a direct modem conversation instead of internet, because the
internet might be down?

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