On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 18:36 +0100, Francois Plagnard wrote: > Hello, > > In RFC 3261, § 15.1.2, it is said : > "Whether or not it ends its participation on the session, > the UAS core MUST generate a 2xx response to the BYE, and MUST pass > > that to the server transaction for transmission." > > > Does this really mean that error response to BYE is not allowed (apart 481, > of course) ? > > More specifically, is a 407 response requesting authentication allowed ? > > Current draft draft-ietf-sip-identity-06 says in § 10.2. : "When the > authentication service receives the BYE, it authenticates Bob by sending a > 407 response." > > This seems to indicate that it is allowed. If it is the case, what is the > exact meaning of the quote of RFC 3261 above ?
In order to make the protocol work, it is clear that 15.1.2 refers to BYEs that are actually acted upon; the processing it refers to would happen after un-authenticated requests are rejected with 407. Dale _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors
