Retrieves the contents of a URL

Description

 CURL(url[|post-data])
 
 url       - URL to retrieve
 post-data - Optional data to send as a POST (GET is default action)

Return value

Returns the resulting string/page.

Configuration

Make sure curl is on your system (on "Ubuntu 8.04 server" users can run apt-get install libcurl4-dev)
Then in the asterisk sources re-run the ./configure script and check if it detects curl.
Run make menuselect and look under the Dialplan Functions for the func_curl entry, making sure there are no XXX's there before compiling and installing asterisk.

Example

 exten => s,1,Set(foo=${CURL(http://somewhere.com/somepage.html?x=5&y=4)})

See also

• Asterisk func SHELL: Execute a shell command and return the result
• Asterisk cmd ReadFile - Read contents of a file into a dialplan variable
• Asterisk variables
• Asterisk functions

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