Problem in Using Utl_Http package

Question

Hi to all,
I'm trying to send the sms(Short Message Service) using utl_Http package. When I'm trying to run a sql statement like
SELECT utl_http.request('http://www.oracle.com/index.html') FROM dual
I'm getting an error message like this.
The following error has occurred:
ORA-29273: HTTP request failed
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_HTTP", line 1577
ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist
ORA-06512: at line 1
Pls help me to solve this problem.
Regards,
Alok Dubey

Answer 1

Thank you for ur reply. Infact my database was not able to access the internet. currently, it is working fine.
I'am using this code. It's works well.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Send_Sms_Http
AS
text_str VARCHAR2(5000);
V_Message VARCHAR2(200) := REPLACE('This is a DEMO SMS sent to u on '||TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD/MM/RRRR HH12:MI:SS AM'),' ','%20');
text_sms VARCHAR2(5000) := 'http://hapi.smsapi.org/SendSMS.aspx?UserName=xxxx&password=xxxx&MobileNo=xxxx,xxxxx&SenderID=xxxx&CDMAHeader=xxxxx&Message='||V_Message;
BEGIN
text_str := utl_http.request(text_sms);
Dbms_Output.Put_Line('text_str = '||text_str);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
Dbms_Output.Put_line('Error in sending the message'||SQLERRM);
END;
Regards,
Alok Dubey