[Serusers] www_challange and proxy_challange

Chris St Denis chris at aebc.com
Wed Aug 24 00:28:16 CEST 2005


Seems pointless to challenge an ACK.

Anyway, with ACK and BYE are they supposed to get proxy or www challenge?

-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Darilion [mailto:klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:25 PM
To: Chris St Denis
Cc: 'Thomas Britis'; serusers at lists.iptel.org
Subject: Re: [Serusers] www_challange and proxy_challange



Chris St Denis wrote:

> www_authorize/www_challenge should be used in register. 
> proxy_authorize/proxy_challenge in invite.
> 
> I don't see any need for the www_authorize in invite and I don't think any
> messages other than register and invite support authentication.

All SIP messages except CANCEL can be challenged. But due to broken SIP 
clients it is sometimes better to not authenticate BYE and ACK.

regards
klaus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: serusers-bounces at iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces at lists.iptel.org] On
> Behalf Of Thomas Britis
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:16 PM
> To: serusers at lists.iptel.org
> Subject: [Serusers] www_challange and proxy_challange
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 	Is it sane to use:
> 
> if (uri==myself) {
> 	if (method=="REGISTER") {
> 		if (!www_authorize("", "subscriber")) {
> 			www_challenge("", "0");
> 			break;
> 		};
> 	} else {
> 		if (!www_authorize("", "subscriber")) {
> 			if (!proxy_authorize("", "subscriber")) {
> 				proxy_challenge("", "0");
> 				break;
> 			};
> 		};
> 	};
> };
> 
> 	Or anything here appears to be wrong ?
> 
> 	Thank you.




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