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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By : Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By: Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat-driven products, scaling from a soft-phone to a PBX and even up to an enterprise-class soft-switch. This book introduces FreeSWITCH to IT professionals who want to build their own telephony system. This book starts with a brief introduction to the latest version of FreeSWITCH. We then move on to the fundamentals and the new features added in version 1.6, showing you how to set up a basic system so you can make and receive phone calls, make calls between extensions, and utilize basic PBX functionality. Once you have a basic system in place, we’ll show you how to add more and more functionalities to it. You’ll learn to deploy the features on the system using unique techniques and tips to make it work better. Also, there are changes in the security-related components, which will affect the content in the book, so we will make that intact with the latest version. There are new support libraries introduced, such as SQLite, OpenSS, and more, which will make FreeSWITCH more efficient and add more functions to it. We’ll cover these in the new edition to make it more appealing for you.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

mod_xml_curl configuration


Configuration of mod_xml_curl is where all modules' configurations are, in /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/autoload_configs/xml_curl.conf.xml.

Its XML tree in its simplest form is like this:

<configuration name="xml_curl.conf" description="cURL XML Gateway"> 
<bindings> 
<binding name="localhostweb"> 
<param name="gateway-url" value="http://127.0.0.1/xml_handler.php" bindings="directory"/> 
</binding> 
</bindings> 
</configuration> 

Let's see its most important tags:

  • configuration is the document container, and it specifies that this particular XML configuration snippet is "xml_curl.conf" (mod_xml_curl will look for it when loaded).
    • bindings contains all the "binding" tags.
      • binding each binding tag contains specifications about where and how mod_xml_curl will look for to retrieve a class of XML settings.
        • gateway-url this is the only mandatory tag inside a binding tag. Its value is the complete URL (protocol, server, port, resource...