[Asterisk-Dev] Configurable SIP User Agent string

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

Is there any chance somebody could make Asterisk's SIP User Agent
string configurable, so Asterisk can masquerade as some other device?

for example ...

or on the CLI ...

*CLI> sip set uastring "Supported Device V.1.2.3" my.serviceprovider.com

and

*CLI> sip clear uastring my.serviceprovider.com

This would allow many of us to get better support from service
providers who are hostile to Asterisk. Before you make a support call,
you could set the user agent to whatever the device they support
reports.

I have found that many times, whether you can use Asterisk with a
service that officially only supports a particular ATA, depends on
getting information from the provider as to which fields in the SIP
messages are off, ie. "That's odd, the from field says <sip:s at blah>
but it should be <sip:blah at blah>". Your are so much more likely to get
that kind of information if the log files report a user agent string
they recognise ;-)

Anybody else things this would be useful?

rgds
benjk

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