Hey folks -- I have written a new multithreaded Manager Proxy in c/pthreads called AstManProxy for use with Asterisk. Several folks have been testing it and offering me feedback. Please read below and give it a try. If you are looking for a foundation for XMLRPC, etc, sorts of interactions, this may be a good approach for you. Code is here: http://www.popvox.com/astmanproxy-latest.tgz Regards, Dave -- David C. Troy President/CEO popvox, LLC dave@popvox.com 410-647-5812 ==================================================================Developing web-based realtime applications for the asterisk open-source PBX often requires interacting with asterisk's Manager interface. The Asterisk Manager runs on port 5038 by default and provides a simple TCP interface into several common asterisk functions, including call origination, redirection, hangup, and many other functions. Each interaction from a web-based application requires a separate connection to the manager interface. Asterisk, being a real time application, shouldn't have to deal with the load of constant connections, disconnections, and authentications from a single trusted client, namely your web app. In the same way that web developers have solved this problem for other similar services (imapproxy for IMAP web mail clients, database connection caches, etc), 'astmanproxy' sets out to solve this problem for asterisk. This project started out as a simple proof-of-concept script called "simpleproxy.pl" which was made available in September 2004, following a discussion at the Astricon conference regarding the need for such a proxy. That code was based on Nicolas Gudino's manager proxy for his excellent Flash Operator Panel. Written in perl and as a single-threaded select-based "dumb" proxy, simpleproxy.pl has been widely used as a basis for experimentation, but I wanted something more robust and that could act as a basis for additional features. Several other folks have experimented with adding XML output to the standard manager interface, however, Mark Spencer has made it clear that he does not want to add XML interfaces into the Asterisk core. This is an understandable design decision. Asterisk Manager Proxy is a multithreaded proxy server for Asterisk Manager written in c, and based on several of the same data structures and routines found in the asterisk manager itself. This insures a very high degree of compatibility with Asterisk; it should also be very robust and scalable. Asterisk Manager Proxy gives the ability to support XML or standard output format, configurable on a per-client basis. ==================================================================INSTALLATION: ./make make install ==================================================================Additional Proxy Features In addition to exposing the entire Asterisk Manager API as a pass-through, non-interpreting proxy, 'astmanproxy' can parse client input where desired; this could be used in the future to add new features that make sense to be in a proxy but that don't necessarily need to be in Asterisk proper. Some "ProxyActions" have been implemented which the Proxy responds to but does not pass on to Asterisk itself: ProxyAction: ListClients Outputs a list of current Proxy clients ProxyAction: SetOutputFormat OutputFormat: (standard|xml) Sets the output format on a per-client basis ProxyAction: SetAutoFilter OutputFormat: (on|off) Sets the AutoFilter property on a per-client basis ProxyAction: Logoff Logs client out of Proxy and leaves Asterisk alone; the proxy also intercepts "Action: Logoff" and interprets it as "ProxyAction: Logoff". This keeps the proxy from disconnecting from Asterisk. ==================================================================Author Contact Info This code is intended primarily as a foundation for others to add new features and capabilities going forward. While I will attempt to keep up with it and add to it, I make no guarantees that I'll be able to do that. My hope would be that the wonderful asterisk community will start making changes, and that those changes can be managed through Digium's great CVS process. However, you can concact me at dave@popvox.com, and I will endeavor to post the latest code here: http://www.popvox.com/astmanproxy-latest.tgz Donations are accepted via paypal to dave@toad.net. ================================================================== -- David C. Troy President/CEO popvox, LLC dave@popvox.com 410-647-5812