On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 15:32 -0400, Robert Joly wrote:
> Guys,
> I was performing some final tests on my fix for XECS-2487 when I noticed
> that things were not quite how I would expect them to be.  Basically, I
> was not getting the behavior I was expecting, so I started digging
> around.  This led me to the realization that blind transferring an LG
> phone to external numbers may not work (yes, this is the old XECS-401).
> To make sure it is not something that we broke lately, I tried such a
> transfer using a 3.10 sipXecs and an LG 1.2.38sp and observed the same
> broken result.  Here are the details of what I found.
> 
> When a phone gets blind transferred the TransferControl auth plug-in
> challenges the REFER.  When a new REFER with a proper challenge response
> is received, it adds a X-sipX-authidentity as a header parameter to the
> Refer-To: message.  The Refer-To header as it appears on the wire is of
> the following form:
> 
> Refer-To:
> <sip:[email protected]?x-sipx-authidentity=%3csip%3a2277%40domain.ca%3b
> signature%3D49E37ECD%253A%253Ab978df7c25946c8e0a6122eba1c51c61%3E>
> 
> When a REFER with such a Refer-To header is received by an LG phone, the
> resulting INVITE will contain a X-Sipx-Authidentity header of the
> following form:
> X-Sipx-Authidentity:
> <sip%[email protected];signature=49E37ECD%253A%253Ab978df7c25946c8e0a6122
> eba1c51c61>
> 
> The problem appears to be that the X-Sipx-Authidentity header that LG
> puts in its INVITE hasn't been unescaped which causes the
> SipXAuthIdentity::decode() to report an invalid signature.  As a result,
> the LG phone is challenged when it should simply inherit the permissions
> of the transferor.

I've filed that bug report on other phones, but perhaps not these...

> All this escaping business leaves me perplexed so I have to ask.  Should
> sipXecs be expected to handle the unescaped X-SipxAuthidentity header
> that LG sends or is the phone at fault for sending an invalid header?

We can't compensate for invalid construction/copying - that way lies
madness.

File the issue against the phone ; it's a Blocker, since _many_ things
will be broken by it.



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