{
  "id": 12497803,
  "title": "Polling SMS OTP Delivery Status Without Webhooks (A Clinical Report Gate)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/polling-sms-otp-delivery-status-without-webhooks-a-clinical-report",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-06T23:51:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ignatiuscole6932/polling-sms-otp-delivery-status-without-webhooks-a-clinical-report-gate-2e9g"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The report discusses the challenges and best practices surrounding SMS OTP delivery status polling in a healthtech workflow without webhooks. It emphasizes the importance of bounded operational evidence rather than relying on a clock to drive the login screen. The key points include starting the resend countdown when the send request is accepted, letting users enter the code immediately, and reserving status checks for exceptions and debugging. The report highlights the need to separate authentication, report generation, and report delivery into distinct state machines, even if they share a common API contract. It suggests setting the threshold for successful verification from your own baseline, error budget, and traffic volume, and working backward from the user-facing burn signal. The report also emphasizes the importance of capacity planning in managing the load caused by SMS OTP delivery status polling, particularly during incidents or abuse spikes, and proposes a practical policy of making a few increasingly spaced checks for the exceptional path and stopping at the application's deadline.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}