[Devel] loop detection fix

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Juha Heinanen wrote:

>Bogdan-Andrei Iancu writes:
>
> > yes, same elements....instead of parsing and getting all and build the 
> > ID, just get (let's say) the callid and check it; if different -> exit; 
> > no loop ; if matches, proceed with method name, and so on.
>
>that would work if all existing transactions are kept in shared memory
>to which all openser processes have access.
>  
>
yes, the needed transaction are already in memory - for a request to 
loop it means that it has a previous passage trough your proxy. So 
basically you need to check only the transactions from the same hash entry.

>i wonder why this is not discussed in the i-d.
>  
>
probably the implementation I'm talking about works only for statefull 
more (as you need the transactions).

the proposed algorithm in the draft is more general.

regards,
bogdan