[asterisk-users] AMI buffering event output?

[Alex Balashov]

On 05/31/2011 01:38 PM, Örn Arnarson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing weird behavior with AMI where no events are output until
> some input is detected (can be an empty line), at which time all the
> buffered output is spewed out at once.
>
> I am maintaining multiple Asterisk installations, and with one
> installation I have run into a weird buffering problem with AMI.
> The version is 1.6.1.11 in this particular case, which I am running at
> multiple locations, all without this problem. Additionally I have
> tried version 1.6.2.11 and 1.8.4.1, and the problem is consistent
> across these versions.
>
> manager.conf is identical across all these installations.
>
> The problem presents with a php script that opens a socket directly to
> AMI, a telnet client from the local machine to the AMI, but not when I
> telnet from the machine to a remote machine running AMI.
>
> Does anyone have any input as to what I can try?
>
> Best regards,
> Örn

This is because of some blocking and/or read-write order issue in your 
PHP script.

PHP is a web language, not for standalone scripts doing network I/O.

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