[asterisk-dev] REGISTER uses 401 not 407?

[Olle E Johansson]

3 okt 2006 kl. 05.18 skrev Ed Greenberg:

> In chan-sip.c (from 1.2.12.1) it is written:
>
> 06223       /* On a REGISTER, we have to use 401 and its family of  
> headers instead of 407 and its family
> 06224          of headers -- GO SIP!  Whoo hoo!  Two things that do  
> the same thing but are used in
> 06225          different circumstances! What a surprise. */
>
> Why is this so?
>

This comment in the source is totally wrong. I've been trying to  
change this logic a few times, but Mark has been
worried we might break things by fixing it.

The truth is that by issuing a proxy auth request, we break things  
even more... Asterisk is always an
endpoint and never a proxy and should never, ever, issue a proxy  
authorization request.

It is easy to change source code, but it takes time to change  
attitude and educate people :-)

Hopefully, I can soon start with the new SIP channel since we've  
created a new trunk where we
have more freedom. That SIP channel won't worry as much with  
backwards compatibility
but focus more on RFC compliance. The current code is way too much  
spagetti with fixes
on top of fixes and needs to be cleaned out before christmas :-)

If everything works out for the best, I can start that project during  
this month.

/O


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