That gives me an idea. Instead of having the user hold the phone up to their speaker, what if the webserver dialed for them? If the webserver had a modem hooked up to it and this was for use by people in the office, it could dial the number and transfer the call to the person that requested the number as soon as it was dialed. Then the person who had requested it would have their phone ring and when they picked up, the phone on the other end would be ringing as well!

Though you'd have to have some way of figuring out the extension of the person that requested the number, either by having them type their own extension in (which could be prone to abuse), have them sign in to the phone number database, or give them static IP's and link each IP to an extension number. Don't know how practical it would be, but I thought it sounded interesting anyway. :-)

In reply to Re: Re: DTMF Tone Generator by Mr_Person
in thread DTMF Tone Generator by Mr. Muskrat

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