asterisk users - Nov 2005 - is it possible to connect to Asterisk from an external application?

Is it possible to connect to Asterisk from an external application?

What I mean, to connect and "execute" its own extensions, created by 
some other program:

exten => 1234567,1,txfax(/home/steveu/testfax.tif|caller)

or

exten => $NUMBER_I_WANT,1,txfax($FILE_I_WANT|caller)

and Asterisk will dial this number and "execute" these extensions.


If it's possible, how do I do it or where can I read more about it?


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On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:29 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski
wrote:
> Is it possible to connect to Asterisk from an external application?
> 
> What I mean, to connect and "execute" its own extensions, created
by
> some other program:
> 
> exten => 1234567,1,txfax(/home/steveu/testfax.tif|caller)
> 
> or
> 
> exten => $NUMBER_I_WANT,1,txfax($FILE_I_WANT|caller)
> 
> and Asterisk will dial this number and "execute" these
extensions.
> 
> 
> If it's possible, how do I do it or where can I read more about it?
> 
> 
There are a couple different ways, the easiest and what it sounds like
what you want is to create a call file.  A call file is simply a text
file that gets placed (mv dont cp, and mv from the same partition, mv
across partitions is the same as cp effectively) into a spool dir and
asterisk will check that file do what it says and poof.

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out


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