[asterisk-users] Answered time on channel

[Steve Edwards]

>       On Tue, 26 Dec 2017, Eric Wieling wrote:
>
>             Don't use an 'h' extension, use a hangup handler.  

> On 12/26/2017 04:43 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:
>
>       Why?

On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Eric Wieling wrote:

> From the hangup handler specification:

> Hangup handlers are an alternative to the h extension. They can be used 
> in addition to the h extension. The idea is to attach a Gosub routine to 
> a channel that will execute when the call hangs up. Whereas which h 
> extension gets executed depends on the location of dialplan execution 
> when the call hangs up, hangup handlers are attached to the call 
> channel. You can attach multiple handlers that will execute in the order 
> of most recently added first.

Cool. So in my case where every context has:

         exten = h,1,                    goto(finish-call,h,1)

a hangup handler established at the start of the call makes perfect sense 
and prevents stupid errors like forgetting to list the template in the 
context declaration.

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