[Asterisk-Users] SIP protocol bug ???

[John Todd]

>On 07-11 13:17, John Todd wrote:
>>  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.
>
>   "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.

OK.  My fault, then, for trying to just remember the RFC instead of 
going and actually reading it.  :)

JT