I am trying to better understand how the SMS API works. Newbie so please bear with me. Maybe I am making this too complicated and there is an easier way.
Using ManageEngine's ADSelfService to allow remote users to change their expired and forgotten passwords. It has the ability of sending verification codes via SMS using HTTP GET/POST through a web API. I can define HTTP Parameters and HTTP Request Headers with my POST request. It allows for two variables %mobNo% for the "to" phone number and %message% for the message "text".
My problem is Authorization.
Looking at the example here: https://developer.ringcentral.com/api-docs/latest/index.html#!#TextMessages.html it appears that authorization is not required. But it doesn't work without giving a Bearer token in there. As this example shows: https://developer.ringcentral.com/library/tutorials/message.html. Perhaps in the first example it is assumed that the session is already authorized??
And I am assuming that the token expires and needs to be refreshed. So if I enter a token in the config of ManageEngine, it may work for a short period of time after which it starts getting 401 TokenInvalid and Access Token Corrupted.
All in all using the SMS API seems to be an overly complicated way of sending a simple SMS message. Or maybe I am complicating it too much. But other than the two variable I have mentioned above, my HTTP POST would have to be static every time.
The goal is to be able to send that verification code from the main phone number of the company. So I am looking for sending these SMS messages through RingCentral.
Do I have to write a wrapper app that accepts the HTTP request from ManageEngine and then relays that to the SMS API after authorizing/authenticating? Or is there a way to use static passwords or other forms of authentication and have ManageEngine talk to the SMS API directly?
Thanks,
Shahid