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Pure python SMS/MMS encoder/decoder
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How get a MMS message? #35

Closed toniss closed 8 years ago

toniss commented 8 years ago

Hi, the content of the tutorials folder isnt enough to successfully retrieve a mms message from the mmsc, I will glad if you describe how do it.

andrewbird commented 8 years ago

Hi there, Python-messaging doesn't deal with transmission or reception of messages itself, but merely provides the means to encode or decode the messages. That said the method is something like this: 1 a message is received at the provider's MMSC 2 the MMSC sends enhanced SMS containing WAP push to user 3 user decodes WAP push, sees that it contains a URL describing the location of the MMS on the provider's datastore. 4 the user creates PDP context to providers WAP APN 5 user connects to WAP gateway, and does http get to retrieve MMS body 6 user decodes MMS into constituant parts.

Note this description is only for providers whom offer WAP 2.0 service. For WAP 1.1, you'll need a WSP stack as it doesn't use TCP. I never tried that though.

andrewbird commented 8 years ago

I also seem to remember that Wader automated some of the notification, decoding the WAP push and sending a dbus signal, but the actual reception had to be done by the client, which I think was v-mobile-broadband. But I never worked on the MMS part of the project, so I'm not too sure.

andrewbird commented 8 years ago

Timeout!