Simple Submision Job Protocol

Introduction

Andres Seco Hernandez
AndresSH@alamin.org
03/08/98

This is a simple protocol thought to be used to submit jobs
in remote computers from light mobile equipes, like PDAs,
celular phones, etc. that can send e-mail.

Basicaly, it has open and close channel messages, run messages,
client status messages and job answer messages.

Implementation of diferent jobs gives it diferent funcionalities
that make of interest this simple method of interchange
information between a client and a server.

The principal objetive is that it must be simple of memorize
and use to stablish comunications and run jobs from a GSM
mobile phone with an SMTP e-mail gateway from the telephony
provider.

Maximum size of message is limited by SMS message size from
the telephony provider, tipicaly 160 chars.

In adition, if the telephony provider would add headers and/or
tails to the message, it would be necesary to pre-process
the input from the phone that would filter that headers and/or
tails.

In this last case, you can add a string that signs the start and
end of the message both in the message send from the phone,
and in the protocol implementation in the remote computer.