[asterisk-users] early dial (or overlap dial) and Asterisk 1.2 vs. 1.4

[Steve Davies]

Hi,

The part of pedantic=yes that you need to make '#' work is URL
encoding, unfortunately it comes with a whole load of other baggage
that breaks a lot of different things. A simple fix might be to
comment out the parts of pedantic=yes that you do not need in the
source code and re-compile - This does of course assume some knowledge
of C.

I used to have a patch which added a urlencode=yes/no feature to
asterisk 1.2.x, but I just looked, and I no longer have a copy. If I
am not mistaken, Asterisk 1.4 changed this code quite significantly.

Regards,
Steve


2009/3/2 Vieri <rentorbuy at yahoo.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am testing some IP phones (eg. GXP2000) and noticed that the "early dial" feature works fine with Asterisk 1.4 but not with 1.2.
>
> "early dial" is when digits are sent immediately, one by one, and Asterisk replies with a "484 Address Incomplete" and waits for the next digit until a match is found. This is a very useful feature where no dial patterns have to be set on the phone and the calls are sent without having to press the "send" button or the # key.
> This feature does not work with Asterisk 1.2 and I get a "reason code:481" on the IP phone.
>
> It seems that if one sets pedantic=no in 1.2 then the "early dial" feature works. However, I need pedantic=yes for the # digit to work.
>
> I have a mixed cluster with both * 1.2 and 1.4 and would like to avoid the hassle of upgrading the 1.2 servers.
>
> Is there a quick fix/hack?
>
> Versions: Asterisk 1.2.30, Asterisk 1.4.21.2
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vieri
>