Posted by Dan on 03/03/07 21:37

On Mar 3, 2:38 pm, "kaniga" <yai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to send an sms to one's mobile phone with a wap link
> which would dynamically load the recepient's phone number without
> actually revealing the phone-number but still enable the call?

I'm not really familiar with mobile-phone protocols, which are likely
more "closed" than Web / Internet protocols in terms of ability for
user-agents to do things with the sent data different from what the
sender intended, but I kind of doubt it anyway; if it's sending the
phone number to the user's phone in order to cause it to make a phone
call, I doubt there's any way to hide what the number actually is; it
would likely show up in "recently placed calls" lists on the phone,
and most likely the user would be shown the number and required to
confirm it when placing the call in the first place (otherwise, you
could have nasty scams where a script / website would cause a call to
be silently initiated to a pay-per-call number or an overseas location
that would cost the user a lot of money).

I think the only way to hide the number would be to place the call
remotely at the server end, so that the end user only connects to your
number, which in turn relays it to the real number.

--
Dan

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