Bron Gondwana - Ignite OSCON 2014

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Glues FastMail paging to Opera’s dial‑up support using a Perl CPAN module and a telnet style key: value protocol with blank line terminator, discovers send_command only buffers unless given an action, and a zero‑based split/index picks element 7 to get the wrong field; a copied working snippet passes tests locally but is brittle under concurrency and never reaches production, Opera later sells the system back, and a connectionless JSON API JMAP (jmap.io) is proposed as a cleaner replacement.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:56Update on call number in Asterisk
3. 1:25The API
4. 1:56Asterisk Manager API Action DBGet
5. 2:56API Abuse
6. 3:11Counting time

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