the best approach is to have a separate daemon that connects to
FreeSWITCH and subscribes to events. Then you can asynchronously
process these events without affecting the call flow. There are
actually hundreds of example scripts, just search for keywords:
freeswitch, esl, event socket

There are also implementations of ESL protocol in many programming
languages, and you can choose depending on your skills and
requirements. For example, Golang or Erlang would allow you to spin
off a new thread every time you need it, and do some background
processing in parallel. But for many tasks, single-threaded processing
is enough, so Perl or Python would work fine.

You can also hand the call processing to such an external program --
for example, the XML dialplan executes park(), and your ESL program
picks up the control and performs what you need, like IVR, for
example.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Don Hawkins <hawkins@hawkinsegroup.com> wrote:
> So curl is working fine but I'm unsure (and unable to find any examples) how
> to execute the curl application on specific events, primarily when the call
> has been bridged/answered. Can anyone assist?
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Don Hawkins <hawkins@hawkinsegroup.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Figured it out, I sure did miss something, thank you for leading me in the
>> right direction.
>>
>> <execute application="bind_digit_action"
>> data="curl,*,exec:curl,http://myurl.com/mypage.cgi post
>> uuid=${uuid}&amp;state=${state}&direction=${direction},aleg,aleg"></execute>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Don Hawkins <hawkins@hawkinsegroup.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you Abaci!
>>>
>>> I added
>>>
>>> <execute application="curl" data="http://myurl.com/whatever.php
>>> json"></execute>
>>>
>>> And it's for sure contacting my URL but it's not sending anything, there
>>> are no values... did I miss something?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Abaci B <abaci64@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_curl
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Don Hawkins <hawkins@hawkinsegroup.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Care to elaborate? Do you mean mod_xml_curl? I'm already using that for
>>>>> serving configs, don't see it working for this...maybe I'm wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> Don Hawkins
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my NationPCS® Nexus 6.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 3, 2016 7:57 PM, "Abaci B" <abaci64@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> curl
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Don Hawkins
>>>>>> <hawkins@hawkinsegroup.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Very simple situation...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> While on a call I want to press * to post to an external URL, I want
>>>>>>> to post global variables, ie. UUID.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have this working with httapi:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <execute application="bind_digit_action"
>>>>>>> data="httapi,*,exec:httapi,http://myurl.com,aleg,aleg\"></execute>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Only problem is, httapi expects XML to be returned and I don't
>>>>>>> actually want to return anything, I just want to send the information to the
>>>>>>> URL and for FreeSwitch to go on about it's business.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What module is best for this job?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Don Hawkins
>>> CEO
>>> Hawkins Enterprise Group LLC
>>> http://hawkinsegroup.com
>>> Zello PTT: push2don
>>> P: 469-214-5044
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> Don Hawkins
>> CEO
>> Hawkins Enterprise Group LLC
>> http://hawkinsegroup.com
>> Zello PTT: push2don
>> P: 469-214-5044
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Don Hawkins
> CEO
> Hawkins Enterprise Group LLC
> http://hawkinsegroup.com
> Zello PTT: push2don
> P: 469-214-5044
>
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