[asterisk-dev] Improving how Asterisk handles forked SIP requests.

[David Vossel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Klaus Darilion" <klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at>
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 8:01:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] Improving how Asterisk handles forked SIP requests.
> Am 19.07.2010 07:22, schrieb David Vossel:
> > --- Forking issues this will not fix.
> >
> > One issue this does not resolve is forked requests with different
> > request URIs that require Authorization. When Authorization is
> > required the totag won't be provided until the second transaction of
> > the dialog. With my current patch it is impossible guarantee a
> > correct dialog match for the second transaction of these dialogs. I
> > do not yet have a simple solution for this.
> 
> The first transaction (without credentials) is not related to the
> second
> transaction (with credentials) - at least within the SIP transaction
> layer. The first transaction does not create a dialog.
> 
> regards
> Klaus
> 
> PS: A pure SIP transaction layer would be great!
> 

Now this makes sense.  Thanks Klaus.  A transaction layer would be awesome.  It really feels like anything I am attempting to do here is a hack, but outside of re-writing chan_sip I'm not sure what other option we have.

David Vossel
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