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Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition

You're reading from   Twilio Cookbook: Second Edition Over 70 easy-to-follow recipes, from exploring the key features of Twilio to building advanced telephony apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783550654
Length 334 pages
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Twilio Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Into the Frying Pan 2. Now We're Cooking FREE CHAPTER 3. Conducting Surveys via SMS 4. Building a Conference Calling System 5. Combining Twilio with Other APIs 6. Sending and Receiving SMS Messages 7. Building a Reminder System 8. Building an IVR System 9. Building Your Own PBX 10. Digging into OpenVBX 11. Sending and Receiving Picture Messages 12. Call Queuing 13. Working with Twilio Client Index

Receiving incoming calls in the browser


Now that you know how to place and disconnect calls from the browser, it's time for your browser to start receiving incoming calls. By the end of this recipe, you will be able to make a call into your browser from your phone.

Getting Started

We're going to set up our Twilio Client app to accept incoming calls. This involves making changes to our Twilio app in our Twilio account.

To begin receiving incoming calls, we have to set up the Twilio Client app by performing the following steps:

  1. Give the browser session a client name. The browser will use this name when it registers itself with Twilio.

  2. Set up Twilio Client to notify your browser session about incoming connections.

  3. Write a TwiML code that directs incoming calls to your browser session.

The complete code for this recipe can be found in the Recipe1 folder under Code.

How to do it…

We will be implementing the following steps to set up our own app to allow incoming calls into our browser:

  1. Firstly, since this...

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