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Kannel - SMS and WAP gateway

Kannel functions as an SMS (Short Message Service) gateway and as a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) gateway. The functions are independent, and can be used separately or both at once.

When used as an SMS gateway, Kannel can receive messages from one or more SMS centers and convert them into HTTP requests. It also has an HTTP interface for sending messages back to the SMS centers, and it can send text responses directly from a configuration file. Kannel supports the following SMS center protocols:

Kannel can also exchange messages with a mobile phone or GSM modem, in effect using it as an SMS center.

When used as a WAP gateway, Kannel functions as described in the http://www.wapforum.org (WAP Forum) specifications, except that not all mandatory features of the WAP 1.1 conformance release have been implemented yet. Currently it supports:



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.kannel.3glab.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.kannel.3glab.org/download/1.2.1/gateway-1.2.1.tar.gz
Version 1.2.1 (stable) released on 2002-11-02
Version 1.3.1 (devel) released on 2003-02-17
Licensed under BSDAdClause.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User intro and reference included; Programmer introduction included
Support contacts

Announce List<announce@kannel.3glab.org> <announce-subscribe@kannel.org>
Help List<users@kannel.3glab.org> <users-subscribe@kannel.org>
Developer List<devel@kannel.3glab.org> <devel-subscribe@kannel.org>
Bug List<devel@kannel.3glab.org> <devel-subscribe@kannel.org>

Project contacts

Developers
Contributors
  • Kean-Leong Ang
  • Taneli Leppä
  • Joerg Pommnitz
  • Derry Hamilton
  • Mikael Gueck
  • Sanna Seppänen
  • Markku Rossi
  • Hao Shi
  • Andreas Fink
  • Aarno Syvnen
  • Stipe Tolj (see for details)

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.kannel.org:/home/cvs gateway
Interfacesdaemon, web
Programsbearerbox, wapbox, smsbox
Source languagesC
Use requirementslibxml 2.4.0 or higher
Build prerequisiteslibxml 2.4.0, docbook, GNU make

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-12-21
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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