RE: Paging software for the iSeries

> 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?