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I'm looking for a web service which allows me to send an SMS to it and then it calls a HTTP callback. So, for example, I can register on the site and it provides me a user id and if I send an SMS to the service's phone number with my user id and some extra parameter (e.g. a command) then it calls the HTTP callback (which I gave to it previously) with the command I sent in the SMS. It could be used to control web applications via SMS if the user has no mobile internet access.

So it's a programmable web service which provides an SMS API instead of a HTTP API. An SMS to HTTP gateway. Do you know about a web service like this?

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Twilio sounds like it could be what you're looking for.

It can be configured to receive SMS and execute your webservice on the backend, returning results to the client. I'm sure it would handle 'sessions' either natively or with a little bit of logic work on your end.

Check out the QuickStart application

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