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Twilio: Send SMS using Basic Authentication
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Demonstrates how to use Twilio to send an SMS message using Basic authentication.Chilkat Classic ASP Downloads
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success = 0
' Demonstrates how to use Basic Authentication in a REST API call for Twilio.
' Sends an SMS text message..
' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")
' Use Basic Authentication.
' Your Twilio Account SID is the username.
' Your Twilio Auth Token is the password.
success = rest.SetAuthBasic("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID","TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN")
' Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet) to Twilio.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("api.twilio.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
' Provide the information for the SMS text message:
success = rest.AddQueryParam("To","+16518675309")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("From","+15005550006")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Body","Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("MediaUrl","http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1075/1404618563_3ed9a44a3a.jpg")
' Send the SMS text message.
' Your Twilio Account SID is part of the URI path:
responseJson = rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/2010-04-01/Accounts/TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID/Messages.json")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
' When successful, the response status code will equal 201.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 201) Then
' Examine the request/response to see what happened.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response body (if any): " & responseJson) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "---") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "LastRequestStartLine: " & rest.LastRequestStartLine) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "LastRequestHeader: " & rest.LastRequestHeader) & "</pre>"
Response.End
End If
' The response is JSON. We'll show how to get a few bits of information from it.
' A full sample JSON response is shown below..
set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
json.EmitCompact = 0
success = json.Load(responseJson)
' First show the entire JSON.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( json.Emit()) & "</pre>"
' Now get some individual pieces of information:
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "sid: " & json.StringOf("sid")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "body: " & json.StringOf("body")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "media: " & json.StringOf("subresource_uris.media")) & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success.") & "</pre>"
' Sample JSON response:
' {
' "sid": "MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3",
' "date_created": null,
' "date_updated": null,
' "date_sent": null,
' "account_sid": "112e1111e0151133d11112101111d1111",
' "to": "+16518675309",
' "from": "+15005550006",
' "messaging_service_sid": null,
' "body": "Sent from your Twilio trial account - Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!",
' "status": "queued",
' "num_segments": "1",
' "num_media": "0",
' "direction": "outbound-api",
' "api_version": "2010-04-01",
' "price": null,
' "price_unit": "USD",
' "error_code": null,
' "error_message": null,
' "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3.json",
' "subresource_uris": {
' "media": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3/Media.json"
' }
' }
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