Hylafax protocol experimentation ended

I finally wrote a kind of middleware that sits between a web-based procurement system (written in PHP) and Hylafax server. Among other things that the procurement system does is mass faxing to various vendors - in this case up to a few hundred vendors a day.

My initial test went pretty smooth - well, a bit of hiccup though. Few fax machines apparently received the distorted document due to some unknown reasons. I'm still investigating. Apart from that I would say the prototype was a success, able to handle hundreds of documents to fax simultaneously. The decision to do the communication part asynchronously paid off - no noticeable load on the server which runs the middleware.

So anybody interested in integrating your webbased system with Hylafax? :)