[VoiceOps] Metaswitch challenging SIP BYE

[Alex Balashov]

Yeah, I know.  But as you know, it's not always about the standards, but what's de facto in the field.  Think 3261 requirement for every stack to support TCP transport. :-)

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On Sep 29, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Alex Balashov
> <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>> On 09/28/2011 05:19 PM, Mark Holloway wrote:
>> I wonder how common it is to auth-challenge sequential requests across the
>> board.  There is considerable and spirited debate as to whether it's a good
>> idea, or whether it should be done only for initial requests.
> 
> A user agent not prepared to cope with auth challenge of BYE or any
> SIP message excepting
> CANCEL and ACK  is not correctly implementing SIP authentication as
> specified by RFC3261
> and should be fixed....
> 
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> -JH