[SR-Users] How to uniquely identify SIP WS / WSS endpoint

Vitaliy Aleksandrov vitalik.voip at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 12:24:38 CEST 2014


On 22.08.14 03:26, Muhammad Shahzad wrote:
> Sorry for putting this question on both dev and user mailing lists, as 
> it is a rather theoretical question and i hope some SIP guru on either 
> mail list will answer.
>
> For non-WS endpoints which use TCP or UDP for SIP transport, each 
> upstream request has top most VIA header pointing to the previous hop 
> which forwarded the request to current hop while each downstream 
> request has top most VIA header pointing to next hop to which it will 
> be forwarded from current hop.
>
> But for WS endpoints, the top most VIA has dummy static value, so 
> there is no way to identify who sent this request or to whom the reply 
> is going to.
>
> Please note that i am not specifically interested in network address 
> of remote endpoint (though VIA header is suppose to provide it), i 
> only need to match requests and responses from / to a specific device 
> using SIP v2.0 standard.
>
> Any help is highly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>

Can you provide an example of scenario you want to create ?
Do you want to understand how transaction and dialog matching works in SIP ?



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