A stateless proxy, as the name implies, just forwards any requests or responses coming its way. It doesn't authenticate, it doesn't generate responses.
Regards, Hisham > -----Original Message----- > From: ext Shan Lu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:11 AM > To: 'Igor Slepchin'; 'Jiri Kuthan'; 'James Undery'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Sip-implementors] RE: [Sip] Authentication and ACK > > > Yeh, that's exactly my question: based on RFC3261, how does a > stateless > proxy know the ACK should be dropped? > > Regards, > > Shan Lu > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Igor Slepchin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:05 PM > >To: 'Shan Lu'; 'Jiri Kuthan'; 'James Undery'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [Sip-implementors] RE: [Sip] Authentication and ACK > > > > > >Well, if INVITE failed authentication, it wasn't forwarded > >anyway so the ACK > >would be hop by hop and would not be forwarded either... > > > >Thank you, > >Igor Slepchin > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Shan Lu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> <...> > >> True. However on the flip side, if INVITE failed > authentication, ACK > >> sure should not be proxied along. It's not a big deal, just > >not nice. > >> > >> Shan Lu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors > _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors
