[asterisk-users] Limitations of IAX

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 09:42, Joshua Colp wrote:
> As previously pointed out transporting the account code may be a security
> risk as well. If you really need it why don't you encode it into the dialed
> number or something?

Because that's a completely shitty workaround for something that "may" be a 
security risk.  DISA "may" be a security risk too but it's there in all its 
glory; why not allow people to shoot themselves in the foot?  Why not have a 
"restrictvars=yes" in iax.conf?  If I create a patch to do this against svn 
trunk, would such a thing be accepted?

Mr. Garstang is very grating at times but he has brought forward a number of 
shortcomings which if fixed would make the use of Asterisk far more 
intuitive.  And as I am certain you have seen on this very list, some of the 
workarounds people have done in order to make things work are hideous, 
hideous abominations.

-A.