In a controlled/secured networks there may be the need to parse all the vias and take action like logging as part of the session and also for detection of unexpected behavior etc. Just a thought.
Kasturi On Tuesday 11 April 2006 14:02, Adam Roach wrote: > Vijay K. Gurbani wrote: > > Adam Roach wrote: > >> In practice, the received parameter is interpreted *almost* exclusively > >> by the entity that wrote it -- so interoperability shouldn't be as > >> substantially harmed by differing interpretations than might it first > >> appear. > > > > That depends. A proxy that inserts a received parameter and *then* > > forwards the request to the next downstream server may cause some > > concern to the receiving server. The specific behavior we have > > observed is that the next downstream server is unable to parse the > > request because of the brackets in the topmost Via "received" > > parameter that were added by the previous upstream entity. > > Why are they parsing anything but the topmost Via header field? It seems > a waste of processing time to parse the entire stack of Vias. > > /a > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
