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Dear Experts,

I am writing an api for MO messages with http.

Someone should please show me sample codes that can return my message in text/plain?

Thank you.

sample-mo-api.txt

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Ray Paseur

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Olaf Doschke

It's true what Ray says. On top of that, typically a Web server like Apache or IIS is configured to answer a request to a PHP script with a standard header for mime type text/html. This is okay for the normal case PHP is used to create HTML output.

In a PHP script you can override that, unless headers already have been sent. You can check that via headers_sent() and headers_list() will list headers already sent or at least prepared. In case headers have not yet been sent you can use header_remove() to remove them.

And then one of the first function calls made of your php script should be

header('Content-type: text/plain');

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and afterwards echo is enough to send text.

If not doing that and staying with the web server default for PHP extension, a strict client might be picky about it, while actually text/html does not differ from text/plain in most cases, a typically UTF-8 encoded html output also contains text in the same single byte encoding as text/plain, the lower 128 chars are identical and include many Latin chars, digits and such.

Bye, Olaf.

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Dear experts,

Forgot to mention am a newbie.

HTTP response from Client’s application should look like this:

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HTTP/1.1 200 OK ??
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2007 04:55:47 GMT ??
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) ??
Connection: close ??
Content-Type: text/plain ??
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Please provide me with php code that could be included in my code above to get this response.

Thank you.

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