node.js - twilio receive sms without responding back

Question

Good Day,

How do I properly receive an SMS on my web app using twilio without responding back to the sender.

I read about this.. https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223134127-Receive-SMS-messages-without-Responding but I need to use the webhook to send the sms to my webapplication too, if I do receive it without setting a response, It will generate an Error - 11200 (HTTP retrieval failure) how do I prevent this? also by setting up respones.

my code is

var resp = new twilio.twiml.MessagingResponse();
resp.message('<Response></Response>');
                      res.writeHead(200, {
                        'Content-Type':'text/xml'
                      });
                      res.end(resp.toString());

sadly this one sends <Response></Response> to the sender instead.. im using nodejs by the way.. Thanks!

Answer 1

Those who are finding this in 2021,

If you need to just recieve message from twilio and not send any message to user then you can use this code.

res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end();

For more refer this doc, Receive SMS and MMS Messages without Responding