Hi there. I know that Dial application can send url to client. But what softphones can actually display it? I’ve tried with Ekiga, X-lite and some other, all of them doesn’t show url address. Maybe there are more intelligent way to send some information in call?
Thanks.
X-Lite, at least, is a loss leader, and can’t be expected to do more than the basics.
Can you recommend some softphone for this?
No. I wouldn’t reccommend soft phones for anything non-trivial, and I’d be surprised if anyone here has tried doing what you are doing. You could have a look at one of the paid for soft phones, like Bria, the full function version of X-Lite, but you will need to read the specification carefully.
Thank you, I’ll try.
I just wondering, if Asterisk can do that (and could do a long time ago) why this simple thing are not supported by many softphones…
The relevant SIP header (Access-URL) seems not to have made it beyond the draft RFC stage. Also many “free” soft phones are loss leaders.
Hello,
Looking for a SIP client knowing how to handle Access-URL SIP header provided by Dial() or SendURL()
@sloun did you find one ?
Thank you,
I’ve added partial (most common case I think - Access-URL in incoming INVITE) support for this in tSIP 0.1.50, taking this article: http://documents.polycom.com/topics/80391 as reference.
By default (Settings/Integration) URL is opened on request, using new “Access SIP URL” button type with option to add local and/or global key shortcut. It can be changed to respect “mode” argument in header or force automatic opening.
Note: this is slightly duplicating earlier, client-only “HTTP query” function - opening link with caller ID passed as argument.
Let me know if this works as expected.
Hello @tomeko,
As you mentioned, this Access-URL stuff is kind of duplicating the client-side automation feature, which is finally the less intrusive way of automatically open an URL with the caller ID as an argument.
Thank you for the tip 
Intrusiveness to end user is actually identical, user can decide if url would be opened automatically or manually with button or shortcut to button. Access-URL just adds option to make this decision on server side.
As Lua scripting was extended lately there is also another option, using function call like
ShellExecute(“open”, “http://somehost/index.php?ab=cd”, “”, nil, 1) in script(s) assigned to “on call state changed” event (running e.g. on incoming or on accepted call) or button (as below):
local peer = GetCallPeer()
if peer == "" then
return
end
local url = "http://google.com/search?q=" .. peer
ShellExecute("open", url, "", nil, 1)
This way some custom logic or lookup table can be included.