[asterisk-dev] PJSIP REFER question

[Joshua C. Colp]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Dan Cropp wrote:
>  
> Joshua helped answer some questions on the asterisk-users list.
> 
> 
> With Cisco switch, we’ve encountered a problem where Cisco does not 
> send NOTIFY subscription updates if the Supported header includes 
> norefersub.
> 
> Cisco is not handling this correctly, but getting Cisco (or any of the 
> large switch vendors) to fix their bugs is impossible.
> 
> 
> In Asterisk, chan_sip we are able to perform REFER (transfer) with 
> Cisco. SIP debugging shows chan_sip does not include the norefersub.
> 
> The easy solution is for us to keep using chan_sip and not PJSIP. 
> However, PJSIP is much better overall and chan_sip is basically 
> deprecated.
> 
> We really want to stop using chan_sip for some systems, but we can’t 
> without PJSIP handling all these.
> 
> 
> I’m wondering if any asterisk developers can provide more insight on 
> including the norefersub in the res_pjsip_refer when the load module?
> 
> Is this setting really needed?

According to the RFC[1] it's supposed to exist to indicate support for the functionality in the first place. Removing it would essentially be removing support for suppressing it most likely. It ultimately depends on the remote implementation as to whether they take it into account.
 
> If setting needs to remain, how difficult would it be to write code to 
> make this setting configurable?

I don't think it would be too difficult to do such a thing, but that's only a guess.
 
> In our use case, we need to REFER calls to Cisco endpoint. However, 
> Cisco will not REFER calls to us.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4488.txt

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