I need to send faxes from my RoR app (Linux based). I guess this could be done either VoIP or a web service (I don''t want to use a fax modem and regular line). Any advice - softwrae, services, or experience? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Well.. I have personally only tried corporate fax/meil services so I''m more used to services where I write images or PDF to a directory and some fax software picks that up and sends accordingly. However for what you are asking as I understand it take a look at: http://ws.interfax.net/dfs.asmx?op=SendfaxEx_2 I know of that company and iv''e been told it''s pretty solid. This is a SOAP service and everything is XML so I would be very suprise of implementing this would take more than 30 minutes * Murphy''s law. On 7/14/06, Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:> I need to send faxes from my RoR app (Linux based). I guess this could > be done either VoIP or a web service (I don''t want to use a fax modem > and regular line). Any advice - softwrae, services, or experience? > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- -------------- Jon Gretar Borgthorsson http://www.jongretar.net/
I don''t know of any simple solutions (the previous post about interfax looks good), but I can tell you that faxing via voip is not reliable. It works in some specific cases, usually where it''s over a LAN or where you have a good connection between the endpoints and enough bandwidth. Fax is just too sensitive. A store and forward type of service should be easy enough to find though. You send them the file over the internet, and they send it after it''s received. Chris On 7/14/06, Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:> I need to send faxes from my RoR app (Linux based). I guess this could > be done either VoIP or a web service (I don''t want to use a fax modem > and regular line). Any advice - softwrae, services, or experience? > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
Thanks a lot for your help, this looks very nice. Exactly what I need. Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson@contuitive.com On Jul 14, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Jon Gretar Borgthorsson wrote:> Well.. I have personally only tried corporate fax/meil services so I''m > more used to services where I write images or PDF to a directory and > some fax software picks that up and sends accordingly. > > However for what you are asking as I understand it take a look at: > http://ws.interfax.net/dfs.asmx?op=SendfaxEx_2 > I know of that company and iv''e been told it''s pretty solid. This is a > SOAP service and everything is XML so I would be very suprise of > implementing this would take more than 30 minutes * Murphy''s law. > > On 7/14/06, Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote: >> I need to send faxes from my RoR app (Linux based). I guess this >> could >> be done either VoIP or a web service (I don''t want to use a fax modem >> and regular line). Any advice - softwrae, services, or experience? >> >> >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> _______________________________________________ >> Rails mailing list >> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >> > > > -- > -------------- > Jon Gretar Borgthorsson > http://www.jongretar.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060714/53b29eea/attachment-0001.html