[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-28513) Should To: be rewritten when forwarding to a phone

[Joshua C. Colp (JIRA)]

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Joshua C. Colp commented on ASTERISK-28513:
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Have you signed a license agreement? If not, then you will not have access to Gerrit. I've also removed your patch as it is unlicensed code.

> Should To: be rewritten when forwarding to a phone
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>
>                 Key: ASTERISK-28513
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28513
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: None
>          Components: Resources/res_pjsip_messaging
>    Affects Versions: 13.28.0
>            Reporter: Brian J. Murrell
>            Assignee: Unassigned
>              Labels: pjsip
>
> I have run into a problem with {{MESSAGE}} s and the [Linphone Android client|https://github.com/BelledonneCommunications/linphone-android].
> The [issue|https://github.com/BelledonneCommunications/linphone-android/issues/605] as described in their tracker is that when {{MESSAGE}} s come to the linphone client from the same sender, they can be "filed" into many different threads, rather than all in one chat/thread.  This is because linphone separates chats based on both the From: and To: headers.
> As I am sure you know, the {{To:}} header of a client can vary wildly based on the IP address it's connecting from.  This means that every time the IP address of the SIP client changes, a new chat for the same sender is created.
> But the problem is that Asterisk is setting the {{To:}} header of the {{MESSAGE}} to the {{user at ip_address}} of the remote SIP client and so this means that every time the IP address of the remote SIP client changes, a new To: header is created, and so is a new chat in the SIP client.
> Linphone defends this behaviour by insisting that the {{To:}} header value is a logical value of the recipient for a given domain and should always remain it's logical value no matter whether it's being forwarded on to a SIP client or not.
> So for example, if my Asterisk server is at pbx.example.com and somebody (my VOIP provider for example) send a {{MESSAGE}} to 555-555-1212 at ip-address-of-my-asterisk, when my Asterisk server receives that message and then wants to forward it on to a SIP client, the To: should be {{To:  _recipient_]@pbx.example.com}}, not {{To: _recipient_ at ip-address-of-SIP-client}}.
> They quote [RFC 3261 section 8.1.1.2|https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3261#section-8.1.1.2] further in defending this behaviour.  My reading of it doesn't leave me with much to argue against their defence.
> I don't see any way to make Asterisk (with PJSIP) to follow this behaviour.



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