[Asterisk-Users] SIP protocol bug ???

[James Sizemore]

Does this have a bug number so I can track it?

Jan Janak wrote:

>On 07-11 13:17, John Todd wrote:
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>>From what I can understand of the issue you describe, it sounds like 
>>the problem resides on the remote side, and not Asterisk's side.
>>
>>You are sending an invalid request in your first query, and the 
>>remote side is sending "Unauthorized", meaning that it believes you 
>>have supplied credentials, but they are the wrong credentials.  This 
>>is the end of the conversation, since both sides have given their 
>>"final words" on the subject.
>>    
>>
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>  "Unauthorized" means that the message contained no credentials or the
>  server was unable to verify the credentials. When a user agent (asterisk)
>  gets an "Unauthorized" message then it is supposed to retry with proper
>  credentials.
>
>  
>
>>What arguably _should_ be happening is that the remote SIP host 
>>should be sending "407 Proxy Authentication Required", but it's not. 
>>Therefore, Asterisk is behaving correctly.  This is not a bug in 
>>Asterisk.
>>    
>>
>  
>  That depends on the type of the remote host. Registrars, PSTN
>  gateways, and user agents send 401, proxies send 407.
>
>  In any case asterisk should be able to handle both for any type of
>  message except ACK and CANCEL (which can not be challenged).
>
>    Jan.
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