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

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-December/ 
>>> 002398.h
>>>> tml
>>>>
>>>> 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} :-)

...which is extremely ugly, but which I ended up doing to get around  
this. Passing vars in IAX2 has been in the talk for years, but  
obviously someone doesn't see the usefulness of this.

roy
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