[SR-Users] Rewrite BYE to Cancel

Lars Olsson lars.olsson at optimobile.se
Tue Sep 29 02:54:59 CEST 2020 

Hi



A follow up question on a almost one year old case.


t_cancel_callid() is still working good.


However, a new calling scenario towards the same system just got me another issue.


The Cancel request generated by t_cancel_callid() is not accepted by this old legacy system.

I have not yet confirmed it, but it looks like the only difference form other Cancel request is that t_cancel_callid() generates a Cancel with a Contact header.


Should the Contact header really be inside the Cancel request?

Is it possible to disable it?


Running Kamailio 5.3.6


Best Regards,

Lars


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Subject: Re: [SR-Users] Rewrite BYE to Cancel

Hi all,

I just want to report back.
Daniels suggestion worked great!
Thanks a lot for your input.

On the "incorrect" BYE request, trigger a cancel for the INVITE with t_cancel_callid() using call-id and cseq of the INVITE request.  (Cseq was not the same on INVITE and BYE).
Then reply with 200 OK to the BYE message.

Cheers,
Lars
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Subject: Re: [SR-Users] Rewrite BYE to Cancel


Run with debug=3 and see if you get other log messages from t_cancel_callid() execution.


Cheers,
Daniel


On 25.10.19 13:09, Lars Olsson wrote:
Sorry for forgetting to that result:
ERROR: <script>: Failed to cancel transaction
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Subject: Re: [SR-Users] Rewrite BYE to Cancel


Hello,


which of the xlog messages were printed?


Cheers,
Daniel


On 25.10.19 13:04, Lars Olsson wrote:
Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your reply.

Used the following script for testing:

if (is_method("BYE")) {

            xlog("CALLID: $ci\n");
            xlog("CSEQ: $cs\n");

            if (t_cancel_callid("$ci", "$cs", "0")) {
               xlog("Transaction cancelled\n");
            } else {
               xlog("Failed to cancel transaction\n");
            }
            send_reply("200", "OK");
            exit;
}

No cancel message was triggered.

Best Regards,
Lars
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Subject: Re: [SR-Users] Rewrite BYE to Cancel


Hello,


actually sending BYE for an in-progress call setup (initial INVITE routed, but 200ok was not received yet) is valid from SIP RFC point of view. So it is not really a broken implementation (or, not to put all my money in, it can be, but not because of this kind of BYE).


Practically the BYE can be used to terminate a specific branch in a call setup. Think about parallel forking, and many branches start sending back 183. The caller UA can send BYE to some of the branches and let the others wait to complete.


The CANCEL has to be used when all the branches should be terminated. If there is a single branch, then the BYE terminates the call in progress, I am not sure what the callee UA should reply to the INVITE.


On the other hand, in the very few cases when I saw UAs sending BYE for early call setup, the other side was rejecting it, expecting the cancel.


I expect it should work with kamailio to send 200ok for such BYE and then use t_cancel_callid():


https://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/stable/modules/tmx.html#tmx.f.t_cancel_callid


The call-id and cseq values should be the same in the BYE request.

Try it and write back if works, I am quite curious about...

Cheers,
Daniel

On 25.10.19 12:17, Lars Olsson wrote:
Yes it is a BROKEN behavior from the remote system, unfortunately it can not be changed.
Besides this issue, the remote system works as it should.

A custom b2bua can for sure resolve this, but perhaps not in a standard way.
Question is if it is possible to resolve with Kamailio or if I need to patch SEMS to handle this.

Something like this:

if ("BYE" && dialog not confirmed)
    reply back 200 OK
    cancel other side of dialog

As Kamailio can terminate active dialog with sending bye in both directions, I thought that it might be possible to resolve this as well.  Hence asking for ideas.

Best Regards,
Lars

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Subject: Re: [SR-Users] Rewrite BYE to Cancel

Hi,

I'm normally a bystander.  But on this occasion I've got to comment - there are broken SIP implementations, and there are BROKEN ones.  Surely there is no hope with this one?  If they can't get this right just imagine how many more problems it will have.

Steve


On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 11:19, Lars Olsson <lars.olsson at optimobile.se<mailto:lars.olsson at optimobile.se>> wrote:
hi,

I have a Kamailio setup infront of a SIP system that do not handle cancellation of a INVITE correctly.
The system sends out a BYE request instead of a Cancel request on non connected dialogs.

I am trying to find a way to let Kamailio "translate" the BYE request to a Cancel reqeust for the ongoing INVITE dialog.

Alternative if SEMS b2bua can do it, but currently it replies: "not sip-relaying BYE in not connected dlg", and I have not found any obvious way to rewrite it there.

Any thoughts. I can not change the behavior of the remote system.

Best Regards,
Lars
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