[Kamailio-Users] dial the prefix #31# to mask the number

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 01/12/2009 10:49 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> El Lunes, 12 de Enero de 2009, Daniel-Constantin Mierla escribió:
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>> By some reason, the '#' is used a lot in telecom/mobile operators dialed
>> extensions (e.g., charging credit on mobile phone),
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> Well, IMHO the reason is that key '#' appears in all the phones :)
>   

 ... including the SIP phones. The '#' is also lot used to terminate the 
dialing string orDTMF sequences
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>> not sure why is not allowed in SIP.
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> I assume this is due to inheritance from common URI syntax (an username in a 
> mail URI doesn't allow it also).
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>> That is the reason kamailio (openser) does accept '#' in the username.
>> If you want to be strict compliant to SIP-RFC then you have to use the
>> transformations. Not sure what would be the best to make default for the
>> future ....
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> I think it's ok to allow it, but it would be nice if Kamailio would 
> decode "%23" as "#" directly, without the need of using transformations. In 
> this way, if a strict compliant phone encodes "#" as "%23" in the RURI it 
> would be automatically detected by Kamailio as a "#" symbol.
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> Could it be feasible? Regards.
>   
That is one line on top your config file:

$rU = $(rU{s.unescape.user});

Cheers,
Daniel

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Daniel-Constantin Mierla
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