Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I will do in simple PHP as gateway for MO I guess. But 
for MT, is it only standard HTTP POST with XML tag in the body? Thanks.




On Nov 24, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Milan P. Stanic wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:59, Willy Mularto wrote:
>> Hi,
>> We just received new API from our telco. And it said all MO, MT, DLR will 
>> use HTTP SOAP.
> 
> Is that a trend with telco's now? I received the same few months ago.
> 
>> Since basically SOAP is an XML request. Is it possible if we treat it as 
>> standard HTTP POST and only need to parse the XML structure? Thanks.
> 
> Yes, of course. I do that for some SOAP services (not related to
> Kannel).
> I usually strip namespace and other useless tags (envelope, and what
> not) and I have simple XML, which can be then processed with XML tools
> (library functions).
> Also, I create SOAP requests with simple printf (or alike) functions and
> send it as HTTP POST.
> 
> <rant>
> I don't understand why so many service providers uses SOAP which is
> bloated.
> While SOAP itself seems, for the moment, to be patent unencumbered,
> WSDL, UDDI, various security add-ons, and possibly alternate transport
> mechanisms are all looking questionable.
> ...
> </rant>
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,  Milan
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