[asterisk-users] Website callback

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:05:59AM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2008 07:57:07 Mark Hamilton wrote:
> > LOL, I agree, it _did_ sound a little complicated than to just schedule a
> > call in the future. I apologize for not being able to find this on the wiki
> > earlier when I searched.
> >
> > The other cron jobs and everything probably bring _something_ to the table.
> > I wonder what.
> > Either way, please keep 'em coming boys, and yes I'd like to know the
> > answer to Tzafrir's question about performance.

Test it yourself?

for i in `seq 1500`; do 
  something to create a call file
  sleep a_bit
done

> 
> One very big benefit of using a database with cron jobs is that your web
> application does not need to run as the same user (or otherwise weaken
> security permissions) as the Asterisk daemon.  If running as the same user,
> you'd have to either set both daemons to the same group (which means the
> web server has access to all other files that Asterisk writes) or world
> writable, which is even worse.

In any version you'll still need something with permissions to originate
calls on Asterisk. 

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