AGI-IRC

Written by BOfH from Bob's Basement.  mike@bobsbasement.co.uk

This is an application for allowing an Asterisk system to connect to an IRC channel.  The caller can ring an extention and hear what is being said in the channel.

WARNING: This is simple a demo.  There are critical flaws in the program that prevent it froming being useful!

INSTALLATION
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Edit agi-irc-irc.pl and enter the variables for server, IRC nick, etc.  The save and run.  The script will appear as a user in the channel.

Copy agi-irc-agi.pl into your Asterisk agi-bin and create an extention, calling the AGI script.  When you call the number you should be able to hear what is being said in the channel.

BUGS
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The two scripts communicate via a named pipe.  The agi-irc-agi.pl script is only called when the extention is called.  While is is not running, the agi-irc-irc.pl script opens the named pipe and hangs.  It will eventually time out of the IRC channel.  Only one user can access the daemon at a time.  There is no locking so two users can call the script and it will be hit and miss who hears events!