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

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:19:28AM +0100, Tim Panton wrote:

> When I said we could use url style values in the dial plan, I was  
> thinking of having it work like this:
> 
> dial(IAX2/mexuar/3?customer="JoeBob")
> 
> Asterisk would strip ?customer="JoeBob" from the dial string before  
> sending it.
> It would then add an (optional) InfoElement to the NEW frame with the  
> variable name and value in it
> 
> The receiving IAX would either ignore the extra InfoElement, or if it  
> supported it, it would
> check to see if the variable existed, if not, create it and assign  
> the value.
> (pre existing asterisks will ignore IEs they don't understand)

One side point: would you really want to allow a remote server to
override any local variable you have? Shouldn't there be a separate
namespace (e.g: prefix) for variables that could be supplied by the 
remote party?

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