[asterisk-dev] Announcing Astmanproxy 1.20

[dave at popvox.com]

Greetings everyone,

I'm pleased to announce the release of Astmanproxy 1.20, the fast, 
flexible proxy server for Asterisk's Manager Interface.  Astmanproxy 
allows you to communicate with multiple Asterisk boxes from a single point 
of contact using a variety of I/O formats, now including support for
XML, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, CSV, and the Asterisk-native standard format. 
Astmanproxy is written in c/pthreads (just like Asterisk) for speed and 
robustness.

Many other features have been added, including a new authentication layer 
and support for the Action: Challenge MD5 authentication method.  SSL is 
now supported, so you can encrypt from client->proxy->asterisk, 
end-to-end.  Talking to Asterisk via SSL requires that you are running an 
SSL-capable version of Asterisk (see bugs.digium.com #6812), but if 
you're not ready to do that then you can talk client->proxy via SSL.

One really interesting side effect of having both SSL and HTTP support
natively is that we in fact now support HTTPS!

With the proxy configured on localhost:1234, you can do things
along these lines:

https://localhost:1234/?Action=ShowChannels&ActionID=Foo

This has been tested extensively with good results.  The HTTP handler 
supports both GET and POST and can properly deal with XML or Standard 
output formats.  With Autofilter=on, this paradigm is ideal for creating a 
simple REST-like interface into Asterisk (even multiple boxes!) with no 
web servers needed.

Digium has graciously offered the use of their SVN community server to 
host Astmanproxy development.

For the 1.20 release, 'svn checkout' from:
http://svncommunity.digium.com/svn/astmanproxy/tags/1.20

For the development trunk (cvs-head), checkout:
http://svncommunity.digium.com/svn/astmanproxy/trunk

Tarballs are also available here:
http://www.popvox.com/astmanproxy

And there is a yahoo-groups mailing list here for users and developers of 
Astmanproxy:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asterisk-astmanproxy

There are many new features, changes, and enhancements in 1.20.  Please 
check them out and get us your feedback!  We would love to hear what you 
think!

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
David C. Troy
President/CEO
popvox, LLC
dave at popvox.com
Phone: +1-410-647-5812