[Serusers] Loose routing question

Juha Heinanen jh at tutpro.com
Tue May 3 16:07:24 CEST 2005


Cesc Santasusana writes:

 > For example, Kphone can resend an INV if challenged which contains
 > the auth-data. On the other hand, if a kphone is the receiver of the
 > INV, and it hangs up, kphone generates a BYE message which does NOT
 > contain auth-data. Thus, ser will challlenge the kphone back, kphone
 > will reply with a CANCEL and resend the BYE without (again) the
 > auth-data, entering an endless loop. Ain't it funny?

bye is not initial request, but in-dialog request.  it doesn't make
sense to authenticate them, because you may not even know if the sender
of bye is your local user or not.

for initial requests you always know this and thus can authenticate
them.

-- juha




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