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

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tilghman Lesher [mailto:tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] 'IAX2 call variable passing 
> between servers
> '
> 
> 
> On Friday 28 July 2006 04:38, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > >> 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.
> 
> It would be really nice if Asterisk could just sort of sense what the
> administrator wanted it to do, but there's this little issue called
> reality that we have to deal with.
> 
> There are huge problems with passing variables, and if you restrict
> the passing of variables down as John Todd said in a previous email,
> then there's no advantage to them over simply encoding the values you
> want to pass directly in the dial string.

Speaking of doing that, what's the length limitation on the called number?