[asterisk-users] How to escape the & in BackGround

[John Covici]

I have been using system commands in my dialplan for years and the &
goes through and puts the process in background like it should,
asterisk does not do anything, so you are left with what the shell
does.

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:48:46 -0500,
Dovid Bender wrote:
> 
> [1  <multipart/alternative (7bit)>]
> [1.1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> I tried tinyURL and that did not work. I got an error of:
> file.c:789 ast_openstream_full: File https://tinyurl.com/bdfye5ts9 does not
> exist in any format (URL changed to hide aws key). I tried adding
> \;foo=wav. but that did not work either.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 3:32 PM Kingsley Tart <kingsley at dns99.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Does asterisk follow HTTP redirects? If so can you use something like
> > tinyurl.com to produce an alternative URL?
> >
> > Or, base64 encode the URL, and then set a variable with
> > Set(url=${BASE64_DECODE(${encodedURL})) ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kingsley.
> >
> > On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 16:56 -0500, Dovid Bender wrote:
> > > I tried but it seems it does not.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:57 PM John Runyon <john at simplynuc.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > ${SPRINTF(%c,38)}
> > > > or
> > > > %26
> > > >
> > > > should work, I think.
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 13:21, Dovid Bender <dovid at telecurve.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am trying to play a sound file from AWS S3. The URL is
> > > > > something like this http://example.org?foo=bar&a=b. The issue
> > > > > seems to be that as soon as Asterisk see's the & it assumes there
> > > > > is a new file and the a=b is not sent along. I tried doing \& but
> > > > > that did not work. Does anyone know a way of telling Asterisk
> > > > > that & is part of the URL and to pass it along as a string?
> >
> >
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