Profile is a collection of preferences uses by conferences etc. In the case of SIP a profile is also the name for the resulting SIP UA created by a particular profile.
Context is a narrowed down view of something, in the case of the dialplan a context is a set of extensions. It's like having a dedicated set of extensions per distinct context name like parallel universes. both the foo context and the bar context can have extension 2001. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Fred-145 <codecompl...@free.fr> wrote: > > Hello > > I'm a bit confused at the difference between those two concepts. Contexts > are created in the /dialplan, and are refered to by items in /SIP_profiles > and extensions in /directory. > > What purpose do contexts and profiles play? > > Thank you. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Context-vs.-profile--tp26778101p26778101.html > Sent from the Freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > -- Anthony Minessale II FreeSWITCH http://www.freeswitch.org/ ClueCon http://www.cluecon.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/FreeSWITCH_wire AIM: anthm MSN:anthony_miness...@hotmail.com <msn%3aanthony_miness...@hotmail.com> GTALK/JABBER/PAYPAL:anthony.miness...@gmail.com<paypal%3aanthony.miness...@gmail.com> IRC: irc.freenode.net #freeswitch FreeSWITCH Developer Conference sip:8...@conference.freeswitch.org <sip%3a...@conference.freeswitch.org> iax:gu...@conference.freeswitch.org/888 googletalk:conf+...@conference.freeswitch.org<googletalk%3aconf%2b...@conference.freeswitch.org> pstn:213-799-1400
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