[Asterisk-Dev] ast_callerid_parse

[BJ Weschke]

On 12/29/05, Brian Capouch <brianc at palaver.net> wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > ast_callerid_parse(), as it is written now,
> > never returns an error, despite the documentation
> > says it may return -1 on error.
> >
> > Question is - is there any illegal callerid string ?
> >
>
> I don't know the code well enough to know whether work done at this
> point in time would help, but I have discovered that there are certain
> permuations of CallerID string that come in to Asterisk via the Sipura
> SPA-3000 that break things and cause Asterisk to drop the call.
>
> I posted a mail about it to the -users group last week.
>
> I don't know whether the problem is in the ast_ stuff or in the SIP
> channel driver, but it's a major PIA, that's for sure.  Even if the SPA
> is sending something in a mangled fashion, it would seem best to just
> ignore the CID info and proceed with the call. . . .
>

 Agree 100% with Brian on this since I've already been where he's at
with the SPA-3000's. :-/

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