[Asterisk-Users] Polycom SoundPoint IP 500/600 XML minibrowser

[John Todd]

At 4:16 PM -0700 on 8/16/04, Wiley E. Siler wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Patrick [mailto:asterisk at puzzled.xs4all.nl]
>>  Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 4:11 PM
>>  To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>  Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom SoundPoint IP 500/600
>>  XML minibrowser
>>
>>  On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 00:34, Wiley E. Siler wrote:
>>  > Also, is the new SIP  and bootrom release available for download
>>  > somewhere?
>>  >
>>  > Thanks,
>>  > Wiley
>>
>>  Don't know if these are the latest but here are some links.
>>  First one has sip & bootrom files:
>  > http://www.freedomphones.net/polycom/files/
>>  http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Polycom+Phones
>>
>>  Regards,
>  > Patrick
>
>Yep.  Those are the latest.  Sip 1.3 and Boot 2.5.
>
>Thank you!
>Wiley


Cool; I've been waiting for that release, and I'm very happy to see 
the XML minibrowser in the SIP image.

I dug through the manual, but did not see the feature that I've been 
waiting for: XML URL fetching based on SIP INVITE or SIP NOTIFY 
parameters.  I'd like to add a SIP header (or partial header) to my 
INVITEs so that the phone will jump to an XML URL upon receipt of the 
INVITE.  This would allow a "screen pop" with more useful data in it, 
instead of just a simple caller ID.  I could bring up a picture, a 
chart, a call history, etc. etc. etc.  In other words: a "push" to 
the phone for a page based on a realtime event.  However, I don't see 
that in there.  Boo hoo.  This might be possible with the 'services' 
button, but that requires user intervention, and probably would have 
to happen after the phone has been picked up - I haven't tried, and 
my schedule prevents me from trying at the moment.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

PS: Everyone who has a Cisco 79xx phone _must_ get a Polycom IP600 
somehow on their desk.  The administrator's manual has so many cool 
features that can/should be integrated into Asterisk, that it's worth 
just reading the PDF to see how useful an IP phone could actually be 
if we (Asterisk) had support for some of the advanced features like 
shared line appearances, call bridging, and barge-in.  Cisco: listen 
up.  These guys will eat your lunch if you keep crippling the SIP 
projects.

JT