[asterisk-dev] Creating a FastAGI equivalent for realtime configs

[Alistair Cunningham]

I'm interesting in having some new code written to create an equivalent 
of FastAGI for realtime configuration. This could perhaps be called 
"res_config_passthrough.so". The implementation method is not final, but 
what I have in mind is:

- When Asterisk starts, the module loads and reads its config file.

- It makes a TCP connection to a server.

- Any time Asterisk has a realtime configuration request, it asks this 
module according to extconfig.conf.

- This module sends the request as structured text (simple text fields, 
or perhaps XML) to the remote server.

- The server returns an answer as structured text.

- The module returns the data to Asterisk.

- The module leaves the connection open between requests to reduce 
connection time on the next request.

- If the connection drops, the module keeps retrying the connection.

Has anyone ever created such a module? Would anyone be interested in 
working on this? Is there a better way to implement this?

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