Day: 8 March 2019

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Controlling call flow in the Asterisk Dialplan using Curl and Json

Chris Grant (he/him) March 08, 2019 0 Comments
It's very common that we want to use external services from our Asterisk Dialplan, and many times those external services are accessible via HTTP (such as a REST HTTP API). In this article we are going to see how we can use cURL to query an external HTTP service and read a response in JSON format and take action on the values returned to control the call flow in our dialplan. Using cURL to...
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Grace Hopper

The most dangerous phrase in the language…

Jenny Howell March 08, 2019 0 Comments
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a U.S. Naval officer, and an early computer programmer. She was the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language; at the end of her service she was the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy. Grace Hopper is also famous for a quote, that guides so many programmers and developers, including our team at O'Brien Media. The quote, "The...
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