[asterisk-dev] Asterisk charges when AGI calls are hangup before answering.

[Sergey Okhapkin]

This is a correct behavior, A-leg of the call has been answered.

On Monday 15 February 2010, Frank Church wrote:
> I am using Asterisk build 1.4.27.1 and I noticed that when the
> dialplan goes through AGI and the call is hanged up before being
> answered at the destination, the call is charged, ie billsec > 0 and
> the call disposition is marked as 'ANSWERED'
>
> However if the call is answered billsec is set correctly. eg if the
> whole call lasted for 20secs, and talk time was 8 secs, duration = 20,
> billsec = 8
>
> However if the call was hung up before answering billsec is set
> incorrectly. eg if the whole call lasted for 20secs, duration = 20,
> billsec = 20 or in some cases billsec=19 (duration - 1)
>
> Whether the dialling itself is done within the AGI, or the AGI drops
> into the dialplan to allow the call to originate there, the result is
> the same.
>
> Is this normal Asterisk behaviour, or a bug?
>
> It looks like the $agi->answer() command is treated as a normal call
> answer, unless the call is answered at the other end, in which the CDR
> uses the billsecs for that call. Even if I skip the dial in the
> dialplan and jump to Hangup in the context, it is still treated as
> 'ANSWERED' with duration as 0.
>
>
> /vfclists