[asterisk-dev] Dial 'd' option improvement

[Steve Edwards]

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Mark Murawski <markm at intellasoft.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> When using Dial from AGI, ${EXITCONTEXT} only is used for digit 
>> matching, and control returns to the agi script... so having any extens 
>> defined in the exit context is pretty useless in this case.  What I'm 
>> proposing is moving EXITCONTEXT to an option parameter such as 
>> d[([digits][@context])].

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Tim Ringenbach wrote:

> I don't have a strong opinion on your proposed change, but I wanted to 
> point out one thing:
>
> I don't think that's completely true. I haven't tested this case, but 
> most things that do a Goto while you're in an AGI do set a new context, 
> extension and priority, it's just that you're in the agi still so you 
> don't execute them until the AGI completes. It's effectively the same as 
> using the agi commands "set extension", "set context" and "set 
> priority". And you can see that this has happened by asking for the 
> EXTEN variable and notices that it's changed.

According to http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+AGI, "If the AGI 
application dials outward by executing Dial, control over the call returns 
to the dialplan and the script loses contact with the Asterisk server."

Is this correct, outdated or just plain wrong.

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