asterisk users - Sep 2004 - SIP and */#

hi all

I'm trying to setup call divertion with the standard

*21*numbertodivertto#

etc

but...
When I dial such a number from a SIP client, it generally works quite 
badly
most of the ones I've tried can handle *, but none, or at least few, 
can handle #

Is this a SIP protocol weakness, or what is this?

roy

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi all
> 
> I'm trying to setup call divertion with the standard
> 
> *21*numbertodivertto#
> 
> etc
> 
> but...
> When I dial such a number from a SIP client, it generally works quite 
> badly
> most of the ones I've tried can handle *, but none, or at least few, 
> can handle #
> 
> Is this a SIP protocol weakness, or what is this?

I noticed that X-Lite sends the # like "URL-encoded"

For example to dial $, X-Lite sends

"To:  <sip:%23@wtmpsystems.com>;tag=as3355637e"

Asterisk obviously doesn't convert that back.

I don't know whether it should, or whether X-Lite shouldn't encode like 
that.

Probably, Asterisk should be fixed.

Steve