[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0017265]: NTT Japan will ignore SIP packets with ; received= set in Via SIP header

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17265 
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Reported By:                MagicalTux
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   17265
Category:                   Channels/chan_sip/Interoperability
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           1.6.2.6 
JIRA:                        
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2010-04-29 17:57 CDT
Last Modified:              2010-04-30 10:59 CDT
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Summary:                    NTT Japan will ignore SIP packets with ;received=
set in Via SIP header
Description: 
Asterisk always sets ;received= header when reproducing a Via: header in
copy_via_headers() (near line 9099).
The source says "We should *always* add a received to the topmost via"
without giving more informations. I know for a fact that NTT Japan does not
like this in its SIP session, and will discard packets containing
;received=.

The original one-line-patch for Asterisk 1.2 was proposed on japanese
voip-info. I had to adapt the patch a bit to make it compatible with
Asterisk 1.6 and it indeed helps a lot (without it, asterisk complains it
could not transmit a critical packet when an incoming call is received -
outgoing calls not tried). I confirm that with this patch incoming calls
are working.

Reference:
http://voip-info.jp/index.php/%E3%81%B2%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8A%E9%9B%BB%E8%A9%B1_%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%88%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB

Basically the patch makes copy_via_headers() think the first Via: header
is already passed so it won't add ;received= if nat=never is set.

While I'm not sure this should be implemented for nat=never (I'm not fully
aware of what this ;received= info does, except making things go wrong in
my case) I believe there should at least be a way to avoid it (maybe a
nat=never,noreceived ?).
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2010-04-30 10:59 lmadsen        Description Updated                          
2010-04-30 10:59 lmadsen        Additional Information Updated                  
 
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