Creating SMS HTTP IN Trunk

Step 1. Under the “Trunks” section, select the “SMS” tab, navigate to “Create New”, and click on “HTTP IN” (Fig. 1).

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Fig. 1. Adding a new HTTP IN SMS Trunk

Step 2. You will be prompted to enter your HTTP IN SMS Trunk details (Fig. 2):

General

  • Friendly name – HTTP SMS Trunk name to identify it on your DIDWW user panel.

  • HTTP Method – available methods POST, PUT or GET for delivering SMS messages.

  • Follow redirect - enables handling of redirect status codes (3xx). Available only with secure SSL transactions.

  • Request URL – your HTTP server’s public IP address or domain.

  • Query Parameters, Headers and Body Parameters – defines the way and path how short messages should be represented on your system. All these parameters can be constructed by using available placeholders.

Trunk Group Configuration

  • Assign to trunk group - optional, trunk can be assigned to SMS trunk group

  • Priority - priority of this trunk. If priority is the lowest, DIDWW will attempt to contact the target of this trunk

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Fig. 2. HTTP SMS Trunk details window

Note

Message content using SMS-to-HTTP forwarding is Base64 encoded due to URL limitation

Step 3. Click “Create” to complete trunk configuration.