[asterisk-dev] 'IAX2 call variable passing between servers '

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi,

Douglas Garstang wrote:
>> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-December/002398.h
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>>> It talks about passing variables in IAX2.
>>>
>>> Was any of it ever implemented?
>> No, and it probably won't be, until it gets past the "wouldn't it be
>> cool if..." stage.  Not to mention that debugging a session where
>> the variables could change midexecution in the dialplan would be
>> pure hell.

Same goes for inheritance. You could easily prefix variables with 
something specific to an remote variable so this would not conflict 
mid-stream.

> Oh, that's a real shame, because this really limits the usefulness of DUNDi.

Correct, although you could probably hack your way in a controlled 
environment by prefixing or suffixing encoded variables to the ${EXTEN} :-)

Grt,
Florian