Aniruddha Vaidya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a doubt on this. Should this behavior be of stateful proxy or can
> stateless proxy also do this? In my understanding, a stateless proxy should
> not do anything on its own and it should actually pass it to UAC. Is this
> understanding correct or stateless proxies can also do this?
In order to fork a request a proxy must be (transaction)stateful.
So you are right that a stateless proxy would have to simply forward the
3xx.
Paul
> Thanks,
> Aniruddha
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brett
> Tate
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:29 AM
> To: Brez Borland; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Clarification of Redirect originator
>
> See 3xx discussions within rfc3261 section 16.7. The 3xx can be proxied or
> the proxy can recurse on the targets from the 3xx's Contact entries. When
> doing the recursion, the proxy is still acting as a proxy; it is just
> forking the request to more locations.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:sip-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brez Borland
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 4:33 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Sip-implementors] Clarification of Redirect originator
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If I have UAC who is sending a REGISTER request trough proxy server.
>> Proxy server sends this request further on to REGISTER server.
>> REGISTER server sends a Redirect response to the proxy server.
>>
>> Now, should proxy server send this Redirect response to UAC, or should
>> it try to send the REGISTER request to the address specified in
>> Redirect?
>>
>> The RFC3261, 8.3 Redirect servers, say:
>>
>>
>> When the originator of the
>> request receives the redirection, it will send a new request based
>> on
>> the URI(s) it has received. By propagating URIs from the core of
>> the
>> network to its edges, redirection allows for considerable network
>> scalability.
>>
>>
>> My question is, can the proxy be considered as a request originator?
>> Or is it strictly UAC.
>>
>> I am trying to solve this puzzle and fail to do it myself, please
>> gurus of sip, I will greatly appreciate your help,
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Brez
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