[Asterisk-Dev] Is Asterisk a SIP proxy?

[Klaus Darilion]

Olle E Johansson wrote:
> Steve Langstaff wrote:
> 
>> I know that this question has been asked before, and answered with a 
>> "No it's more like a B2BUA".
>>
>> So why does it use "407 Proxy Authentication Required" rather than 
>> "401 Unauthorised"?
>>
> You are right, this is incorrect. I've been trying to fix this a number 
> of times, but Mark has been afraid that we would break something by 
> going to www-auth.
> 
> My position is that we break more by using Proxy-auth... As an endpoint, 
> we should only use www-auth to enable an additional auth by proxy-auth 
> in the same transaction.

Then we should make it configurable ;-)

klaus