On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 08:53 +0000, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
> Is the transport type used for one transaction in a call to be the same in
> other transactions of the same call?

The decision about the specific transport method is made for each hop of
each request and each response.

> As my area of work is telephony, the idea of opening/closing connections
> throughout the life of a call seems a little sub optimal given the time
> taken making a socket API connect call. Do any others agree?

As someone else noted, the current consensus is that an element should
keep a TCP connection open as long as it can, as it is likely to need to
transmit further messages to the remote the TCP connection goes to.

> is there any
> mechanism in SIP of forcing an entire call to use the same transport type
> for all it's transactions.

Generally not.  You can use a sips: URI to require security at every
step of transmission, and you can apply ";transport=tcp" parameters, but
there is no guarantee that it will be applied if there is intermediate
routing.

Dale


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