[asterisk-dev] Idea for GSoC: Support of PRACK in Asterisk

[Raj Jain]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Nic Bellamy <nicb-lists at vadacom.co.nz> wrote:
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> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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> Nic Bellamy wrote:
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> If someone would pick this up as an GSoC project, I for one would
> welcome our new PRACK overlords.
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> Unfortunately this is likely to be nearly impossible to add to chan_sip
> without first adding proper SIP transaction support, since the 1xx
> response/PRACK is a transaction (and of course we'd want to be able to
> support PRACK in both directions). Adding transaction support could be a
> worthwhile GSoC project, but the student doing the work would have to be
> pretty familiar with chan_sip already to be able to achieve it in three
> months :-)
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> Yeah, I know. I didn't say it because I didn't want OEJ to throw a pineapple at me :-)
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> Transaction support would be terribly nice; I've run into plenty of fun[1] over the years due to its lack.

I'd say that instead of hacking-in the transaction layer in chan_sip.c
what we really need is an RFC 3261 strategy for Asterisk.

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Raj Jain