[asterisk-doc] How to write new application for Asterisk by using C

[Jared Smith]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 15:44 +0200, Kevin Khanye wrote:
> If anyone out there has an idea on how to interface a softphones with
> asterisk, I would appreciate the insight. Insights that explains the
> information that asterisk requires to register a softphone, details in
> the headers of every sent packets, and received packets, how to send
> instructions to asterisk to hangup a call, divert or forward, etc.

You may want to check out the iaxclient library... it's a library you
can use from your softphone to do all the heavy lifting.  You can find
more information at http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net.

Hopefully that'll save you a lot of time and effort.

-Jared