SNPP LOGIn quoted or not quoted

[rphaller]

I am not a NotePage user, but I find the information on this site very helpful. I am trying to setup our system to communicate with Sprint's snpp.messaging.sprint.com server, using LOGIn for authentication.

When I run these commands manually using telnet port 444, I have found that authentication fails when I don't enclose the userid and password in quotes.

To clarify here are examples:
LOGI myuser mypassword
550 Authentication Failed

LOGI 'myuser mypassword'
250 Login Accepted

LOGI 'myuser' 'mypassword'
250 Login Accepted

I cannot find in the RFC anything that mentions the need for quote marks.

Does anyone know if the RFC for SNPP requires quote marks or tick marks around the userid and password on the LOGIn command ?

Is this something Sprint should fix or should my paging software vendor (TelAlert) fix their code, which strips the quotes when sending the LOGIn string.

[Tech Support]

As far as I'm aware, you don't need to use the ' in the actual SNPP sequence. For example, if you were to use a command prompt to telnet in to the host and write out the commands manually, you wouldn't use ' in the LOGI command. So, it sounds like something that needs to be modified in your software.

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[OzCom]

Tech support is correct - BUT: The Sprint implementation of their SNPP server is a little different than the SNPP spec calls for in that the USERNAME and PW are submitted in the same string with a space, not as 2 different values

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