[Asterisk-Dev] BOUNTY: app_hangup from exten => h

[Eric Wieling]

Rich Adamson wrote:

>>>>[no-match]
>>>>exten => i,1,Answer
>>>>exten => i,2,Playback(invalid,skip)
>>>>exten => i,3,Hangup
>>>>
>>>>Am I missing something, or does the _. catchall catch an invalid
>>>>extension better than i?
>>>
>>>Tried that, doesn't work. So far the only thing that can catch
>>>an invalid extension is _. as shown above.
>>
>>... i doesn't work??  [testing]
>>
>>I stand corrected, although I think that this is a serious bug in Asterisk.
>>
>>if I Dial(IAX2/) an extension that does not exist I get a NOANSWER back; this 
>>is WRONG.  If I Dial(IAX2/) an exteiosn that does not exist and I have an 'i' 
>>extension in the target context's dialplan, I still get NOANSWER.
>>
>>This is a bug in Asterisk, IMO.
>>
>>So...  FOR NOW...  you're right.  :-)  Let me get this bug fixed.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation. I was beginning to wonder if I really
> was screwed up after a year (or more) of using/supporting * on a
> regular basis.
> 
> I still believe that both "h" and "i" extensions need to be reviewed
> in terms of their actual intent verses current implementation.
> Looking forward to the "i" working however.

There have been extensive discussions of this in the past.  "i" was 
originally designed for catching invalid things from an IVR.

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