[Freeswitch-dev] Pin-less entry into conference

[Anthony Minessale]

Can't you just omit telling mod_conference to not check a pin when you see
your variable.


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Robert Joly <rjoly at nortel.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I work on a SIP PBX project that is using FreeSWITCH as a audio
> conference server which is working great.  The audio conferencing is
> very well integrated in out web-based configuration server and allows
> the owner of the conference to control it (mute, unmute, isolate, ...)
> from a browser.  One other neat thing a conference owner can do through
> the browser is to invite additional parties to the conference by typing
> in a SIP URI.  This causes our SIP PBX to do 3rd party call control to
> refer the invited party to the proper conference.  This works very well
> for conferences that do not require a PIN but breaks for conferences
> that do.  In the latter case, when the invited party answers the call,
> he hears "please enter your conference access number" out of context.
> Given that this scenario is less that ideal I started looking for
> solutions what would allow someone to join a 'PIN-guarded' conference
> without being prompted for one.  I looked at a variety of dialplan-based
> options without success and turned to another option which I
> successfully prototyped.  The purpose of this post is to socialize the
> solution I came up with to get feedback and to ultimately learn what
> needs to be done to get this functionality committed in the code base.
>
> The high-level solution I came up with consists the following:
> 1- add the conference PIN to the INVITE that is sent to FreeSWITCH;
> 2- have conference dialplan set a well-known dialplan variable with the
> content of the PIN as extracted from the INVITE;
> 3- have mod_conference test the pin contained in the well-known dialplan
> variable before deciding to prompt the user to enter a PIN.
>
> The solution I prototyped supports two ways of adding the PIN to an
> INVITE. First, the pin can be included as a well-known URL parameter
> added to the INVITE, e.g. INVITE
> sip:myconf at myfreeswitch.local;X-ConfPin=1234 SIP/2.0.  When the PIN is
> passed as a URL parameter, the conference dialplan needs to be of the
> following form to allow PIN-less entry:
>
>  <extension name="700">
>    <condition field="destination_number" expression="^700$">
>      <action application="set" data="supplied_pin=${sip_req_params}"/>
>      <action application="conference" data="myconf at 700+1234"/>
>    </condition>
>  </extension>
>
> The other way of adding a PIN to an INVITE is to add a user-chosen
> proprietary header containing the PIN to the INVITE, e.g.
> X-My-Custom-Pin-Header: 1234.  When the PIN is passed as a header, the
> conference dialplan needs to be of the following form to allow PIN-less
> entry:
>
>  <extension name="700">
>    <condition field="destination_number" expression="^700$">
>      <action application="set"
> data="supplied_pin=${sip_h_X-My-Custom-Pin-Header}"/>
>      <action application="conference" data="myconf at 700+1234"/>
>    </condition>
>  </extension>
>
> Whichever method is taken, the end results are similar, i.e. the
> 'supplied-pin' dialplan variable is initialized with the conference PIN
> passed in the INVITE.  All that is left to do is for the mod_conference
> to look-up the variable and extract the PIN out of it if non-empty and
> use it as though the user entered it from his keypad.  If the PIN is not
> the correct one, the logic defaults to prompting the user.  The
> mod_conference patch is attached to this post which essentially consists
> in adding 10 lines of code (if you ignore the lines changed because of
> indentation).
>
> Does this approach sound reasonable to you?  If so, I'll open a tracker
> describing the problem and solution and attach my patch to it so that it
> can be committed.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Robert
>
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