Interacting with external Apps - How to use the output

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Hi,

I´m trying to execute and external application from the dialplan but I cannot use the output from it in the dialplan.
To send messages to my pager company I use http get.
In the dialplan I created an extension to send messages to pagers and receive the return code ( OK “sent” or NOK “not sent” )
I´m using http get method with "elinks"
This is the extension in the dial plan:

exten => 6969,1,Answer
exten => 6969,2,DigitTimeout(4)
exten => 6969,3,ResponseTimeout(5)
exten => 6969,4,Read(PIN,askpin,11) ;Enter the pin followed by #
exten => 6969,5,System(elinks -dump mysite.com/reluz/wspager.asmx/“EnvMsg?Pager=”${PIN}"&Message=test")
exten => 6969,6,Gotoif($["${ENV(ASTERISK_PROMPT)}" = “OK”]?8:10)
exten => 6969,7,Playback(sent)
exten => 6969,8,goto(10)
exten => 6969,9,Playback(notsent)
exten => 6969,10,PlayBack(vm-goodbye)
exten => 6969,11,HangUp()

I´m trying to read the return code from the asterisk cli prompt, but it´s not working.

I will appreciate if someone could help me in this matter.
Many thanks,

Carlos

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Use Agi instead of system. Example below, not tested, should point you in the right direction.

exten => 6969,5,Agi(sendpage.agi|${PIN})
exten => 6969,6,Gotoif($["${sent}" = “OK”]?8:10)

/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/sendpage.agi:

#!/bin/sh
sent=/usr/bin/elinks -dump
mysite.com/reluz/wspager.asm … ssage=test
echo “SET VARIABLE sent $sent “”\n”