[Ekiga-list] ekiga dialing from a web browser

[Julien Puydt]

Catalin Catana a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build web based complex address book  application.
> I've registered the protocol h323: with the OS and it's running
> ekiga with the following command:
> ekiga -c "%s"
> 
> If ekiga is closed and i click on a link in my browser like h323:102
> the OS will start ekiga using the above command and it will automatically
> dial the 102 extension, which is exactly what i needed.
> 
> Now if ekiga is already running and i'm clicking on the same link it's
> trying to open a second instance which brings up the following error:
> "Ekiga is running already !" instead of  dialing the 102 extension again.

> Is this a bug , or am i doing something wrong ????

It's not normal.

> Is the following feature already build in ekiga or i'm trying to do 
> something
> that doesn't have yet the proper support.

No, the support is supposedly there.

> I just want to be able to click on links like "h323:extension" directly 
> from a web
> browser and have ekiga automatically dial that extension.

Should work. Yannick had a nice trick to enable the same with a 
presence-enabled button (using SIP and not H.323 though) -- I'm sure 
he'll gladly post it in answer ;-)

> P.S. I'm running ekiga on WinXP.
> I'm using the latest (2.0.9-BETA) build provided on ekiga.org.

Ah! So that's it! Probably a bug in the win32 port. Vincent will 
certainly have a look.

Don't we have 2.0.10beta there?

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