[sr-dev] LCR: defunct_gw() is dangerous

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2011/12/28 Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com>:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo writes:
>
>> Juha, the wrong header I meant is not a wrong P-Asserted-Identity, but
>> a malformed text that makes *all* the SIP message invalid. So a proxy
>> or server receiving it can just *drop* the request (the same Kamailio
>> does if the Request URI contains a falmormed URI).
>>
>> So there is nothing to fix in the GW. It's behaving 100% correctly.
>
> i'm lost.  why is your sip proxy forwarding a sip request that is
> totally (not just one header) malformed? and why is your sip proxy able
> to forward such a request when your uas is not able to respond to it?
> any how is this all correct based on rfc3261?

Hi Juha, my SIP proxy is Kamailio 3.2 :)

And why it is forwarding such an invalid request is a good question.
Please let me get a trace of the malformed request. Tomorrow I will
paste it here.

Cheers.



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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