Using the SMS Event Gateway

This chapter describes how to develop an application that uses the short message service (SMS) event gateway type provided with Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7. It briefly describes SMS and the tools that ColdFusion MX 7 provides for developing SMS applications. It then describes how you can configure the SMS event gateway and write and test an application that uses the event gateway.

This chapter assumes that you are familiar with ColdFusion event gateway principals and programming techniques, as described in Using Event Gateways. It does not assume that you are familiar with SMS, but a basic knowledge would be helpful.

Note: ColdFusion MX Standard Edition does not support event gateways. ColdFusion MX Developer Edition limits connections so that each gateway can send messages to only a single SMS address.

About SMS and ColdFusion
Configuring an SMS event gateway
Handling incoming messages
Sending outgoing messages
ColdFusion MX SMS development tools

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ASandstrom said on Jun 29, 2005 at 10:56 AM :

Note: SMS messages and any other data that enters through an Event Gateway handler should be considered potentially hostile. For example, if SMS data is archived in a SQL database, an attacker could construct a message that modifies or deletes data, or even takes over the SQL Server. Because of this, you should be sure to perform Event Gateway input validation, just as you would validate web form input.

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Using the SMS Event Gateway

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