HTTAPI syntax

HTTAPI markup is really nothing more than specifically crafted XML. In its most basic form an HTTAPI document looks like this:

<document type="text/freeswitch-httapi">
 <variables/>
 <params/>
 <work/>
</document>

This document is returned from the web server in response to the HTTP POST operation that requested it.

An HTTAPI response must have a content type of text/xml. All HTTAPI responses must include the document tag with the type attribute of text/freeswitch-httapi. Aside from that, you may use any one, or all, of the child tags in a given response. The child tags available are:

• params: These are the POST params (that is, "parameters") that FreeSWITCH passes to the web server on each request. You can use the <params> tag to tell FreeSWITCH to pass custom POST params.

• variables: These are channel variables from the channel that is calling the httapi Dialplan application. The <variables> tag allows you to set channel variables that...