[Asterisk-Dev] Manager XML /proxy

[Olle E. Johansson]

Michael Giagnocavo wrote:
> What was Mark's backing reasoning for that. XML is an easy way to get
> parsing for free. Every platform has an XML parser. Otherwise, you're stuck
> handling issues (escaping, character sets, schema, etc.) manually. 
> 
> I don't think XML is anything amazing. It's a simple, well-defined, spec to
> pass around data. 
> 
I guess he's a bit afraid of burdening the PBX with a lot of parsing 
that he sees as too complicated.

As for now, I've discussed this with Mark and agreed to not push this 
any forward but instead look into a proxy solution with a manager proxy 
that converts into XML, as well as handles authorization, multiplexing, 
event filtering and possibly SSL/TLS security.

We have a proof-of-concept proxy written in perl in the CVS, that works 
but is a big security hole... This was based on Nicolas excellent work 
with Asternic - the Flash console.

Does anyone out there has a more solid implementation to donate to the 
project that I can start working with to see if I can implement some of 
the XML ideas ?

/O