Most cell phone carriers have websites where you can go and SMS one of their subscribers for free. Often called "Internet Chat" or "Web-2-SMS" or something similar. Using a HTTP POST means you put together something that will go to that particular site and do a HTTP POST (same as you typing something into some fields on a web page and clicking "send" or "submit" on the page) to send a line of text or a message to your particular number. Sorry I dont have a full howto for you. -Ahsan On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:45:05 +0530, joy <gracecott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Chris DiTrani wrote: > > >If you're competent with shell and Python (or, yuck, perl ;-)) you can > >instrument this pretty easily. All the info you want is either a command > >or a cat of some /proc file away, and with Python you can easily build a > >HTTP POST to pop off to your SMS gateway. How fancy you want to get in > >between is up to you. > > > >I haven't done exactly this, but some very similar things before. > > > > > > > Hmm.... This sounds really interesting, Though I have no idea what is > going on. > could you please direct me to some resources on this "HTTP POST to pop > off to your SMS gateway" > business? > I must say though that I DON'T know anything 'bout this, so a tutorial > kind of site would be rather helpful. > > regards, > Joy.M.M > > > > >CD > > > >- > >: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > >the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
