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Padoga
Padoga

Reputation: 535

Redirect To WebPage after Twilio SMS sent on website / but do not redirect if sms sent through phone

I am using a single twilio number to trigger an sms being sent through a django function.

If a person accesses my app through my website then the app will parse sendphonenum from a post request from the website.

If a person accesses my app by sending sms to twilio number, it will parse sendphonenum from text message.

The problem occurs after Twilio has sent a message to sendphonenum.

If a message was triggered from the website it should redirect to dashboard page for user who sent message. But don't do this if message was triggered through an initial sms.

@csrf_exempt
def sms_response(request):
    if request.method == "POST":
        # parse sendphonenum from text message sent from mobile phone to twilio number +14545552222
        # or parse sendphonenum from a post request from website
        message_body = request.POST['Body']
        sendnum_ary = re.findall('[0-9]+', message_body)
        sendnum = "".join(sendnum_ary)
        sendphonenum = "+1" + sendnum
        mytwilionum = "+14545552222"


        # put your own credentials here
        ACCOUNT_SID = "123434234234"
        AUTH_TOKEN = "abcsdasda"
        client = Client(ACCOUNT_SID, AUTH_TOKEN)

            client.messages.create(
                to= sendphonenum,
                from_= mytwilionum,
                body='someone told me to message you'
            )

    ## there is no platform variable, just doing some mock code to show you what I'd want to happen
    ## note sms_response function url must be same for both website and mobile phone, as both are using same webhook A MESSAGE COMES IN for +14545552222
    if platform == 'web':
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('dashboard'))

    return HttpResponse('')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 96

Answers (1)

philnash
philnash

Reputation: 73057

Twilio developer evangelist here.

Twilio will send a bunch of headers along with the request which you could check for. For example, all requests are signed and include an X-Twilio-Signature header. So you can check the request.META dictionary for the existence of that header. To be extra sure it was a request from Twilio, you can verify that the signature is correct.

    if ‘HTTP_X_TWILIO_SIGNATURE’ in request.META:
      # An XML response with an empty `<Response/>` element
      resp = MessagingResponse()
      return HttpResponse(str(resp))
    else: 
      return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('dashboard'))

Let me know if that helps at all.

Upvotes: 1

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