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Step 4 - Send Messages

Great, now you've got an app set up and you're ready to send messages. To send an SMS message, you need to send an HTTP POST Request to:

https://api.zeepmobile.com/messaging/2008-07-14/send_message

Here's an example

This is the HTTP Request to send the message "The medium is the message" to user "12432".

POST /api/send_message HTTP/1.1
Host: api.zeepmobile.com
Authorization: Zeep [zeep-api-key]:[header-signature]
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:15:44 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 70
user_id=13423&body=The+medium+is+the+message

Here are the the required parameters in the HTTP POST request.

HTTP header parameters

Host api.zeepmobile.com
Date Current GMT timestamp in HTTP-date (RFC 2616) format
ie. "Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:15:44 GMT"
Authorization A combination of your API Key and an HMAC-SHA-1 hash calculated using the above parameters and your Secret Key. This signature is used for authentication. For more information about authentication and how to generate this value, refer to the documentation.

In addition, you need to send the following send_message parameters:

send_message API parameters

user_id This is the unique identifier of the user the message is being sent to
body The body of the message you want to send to the user. (Max 440 characters)

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The zeepmobile.com server will then repond with an HTTP Response to your request. If there were no errors, it will look like this:

Potential HTTP Response to send_message Request

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:15:44 GMT
x-zeep-message-id: zCZdSsjrW875wnTQyeLQfvVPC3zjctsgqIanSxiVNomRm25UzSNvbHc+AOS+6oRh
Content-Length: 70
Connection: keep-alive

For a complete list of responses, check the documentation.


Congrats, you're all done!

That covers the bases, and if you've got questions or you get stuck, visit our discussion group for help!