Jerry Yin wrote:
>> That can work for environments that have it, and if they use it in the
>> reverse direction.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> What do you mean by "reverse direction"? I thought the header can be
> inserted in both Requests and Responses in both directions. Here's the
> quotation from the RFC.
>
> "
> If the proxy receives a message (request or response) from a node
> that it trusts, it can use the information in the P-Asserted-Identity
> header field, if any, as if it had authenticated the user itself.
> "
This header was defined for proprietary environments. The fact that it
"can" be used doesn't mean it will be.
IMS does use it in both directions. If that is the environment you care
about then it is probably what you want.
If you want to use it in some other environment then you need to check
how it is used there.
Paul
> Jerry
>
>> What you may be looking for is connected-identity. See
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sip-connected-ident
>> ity-05.txt
>>
>> Paul
>
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