[Asterisk-Users] Re: Why does this Macro Loop?

[steve at daviesfam.org]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Tony Mountifield wrote:

> In article <200504131653.44702.akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com>,
> Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com> wrote:
> > On April 13, 2005 03:45 pm, Mystery Glitch wrote:
> > > In my [incoming] context I have something like this:
> > > exten => 8885861575,1,Macro(vrforward,${EXTEN},8136361451)
> > 
> > Make sure you have a 'h' extension defined that just hangs up.
> 
> Actually, one thing I discovered some time ago is that you _don't_ need
> to call Hangup from h, and in fact doing so caused me grief if I was
> also doing other stuff in h - some of it got done twice.
> 
> h gets called for either of two reasons:
> 1. You already called Hangup in your dialplan.
> 2. The remote party hung up.
> 
> Neither of those scenarios requires you to call Hangup again.
> 
> If you want to ensure you have an h extension, but don't need it to
> do anything else, just use:
> 
> exten => h,1,NoOp


.... but watch out for your CDR records.  In my experience, "h" lines in 
your extensions.conf will result in your dialled-number info being lost in 
your CDRs and being replaced by "h".

Its bad when you notice this weeks after what you thought was a minor 
change....

Steve