[asterisk-dev] [patch] adding username from registration to peer state ?

[Johansson Olle E]

29 okt 2006 kl. 20.06 skrev Luigi Rizzo:

> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:19:48PM +0100, Johansson Olle E wrote:
>>
>> 27 okt 2006 kl. 11.31 skrev Luigi Rizzo:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:31:40AM +0200, Johansson Olle E wrote:
>>>> inbound or outbound registrations?
>>>
>>> inbound
>>>
>>>> The Contact is certainly saved, and that's the interesting part.
>>>> Why should the From header be interesting?
>>>
>>> because it does not seem to carry the name. E.g. my HT286 does this
>>> (addresses replaced with x.x.x.x). As you see, the Contact: has
>>> nothing useful, and the name is in the From: field.
>>
>> When is that useful? You will get it as caller ID when you get a  
>> call.
>
> i am working on a GUI and i noticed that when the remote parties
> register to asterisk, asterisk doesn't know anything they tell it
> except the contact.
Why should we need it?

We can save a lot of stuff devices tell us, but I fail to see the  
application
for it. The only thing we haven't got is the display name in the  
From: header,
but in most cases, I would not trust what the device tell me.

/O