[asterisk-users] AGI STREAM FILE and not blocking execution

[Steve Edwards]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Patrick wrote:

> I'm wondering if I can take benefits of long prompts to compute in the 
> background the next step to be performed by Asterisk.

I did this a few years ago so that I could process a credit card 
authorization request while the "Please wait..." prompt was playing.

I did it by creating a new thread (in C) in my AGI to play the prompt.

Usually I get the card response before the prompt finishes playing so to 
the caller it's "instantaneous."

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Thanks in advance,
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