[Serusers] Forwarding user authentication info

[John A. Hull]

Thanks for the info. The problem is that I was using kphone, which
doesn't send the authorization info. I switched to an Xten phone and it
worked perfectly. 


On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 08:44, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> John A. Hull wrote:
> > I have ser running as a SIP proxy for SIP to SIP calls, and use digest
> > authentication with MySQL for users. I'd like to add the ability for
> > users to place calls to the PSTN through a switch that needs user
> > authentication for PSTN invite requests. I have the same users set up in
> > SER and on the switch, and if an invite request is made to SER for a
> > PSTN number, I rewrite the host and t_relay it to the switch. My
> > question is as follows: is SER able to forward user authentication info
> > to the switch with the invite request? It's not obvious to me if or how
> > this can be done...
> 
> It will forward this info automatically. SER doesn't strip any 
> auth-related headers when forwarding the message leaving them "as is", 
> so that your router should have no problem with using them for auth 
> purposes.
> 
> -Maxim
> 
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