[Freeswitch-users] On the handling of SIP headers

[Michael Jerris]

There is this endless push and pull on this topic, those who want them  
assume it should be default, those who don't assume that should be  
default.  This probably needs a configuration option defaulting to  
pass them (those who don't want to pass them are usually a bit more  
educated and would find the option better than the other way around).

Mike

On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>  In using FS for various scenarios I've noticed some behavior that
> I'm not sure is completely "proper".  Given that this probably lives
> in mod_sofia who knows what's really "proper".  It is SIP after all...
>
>  So the issue comes up when using FreeSWITCH as a B2BUA and bridging
> between endpoints (very common).  Should FreeSWITCH copy the X-
> headers (possibly others) as it does now?  I'd like to think it
> shouldn't by default and the behavior should be one of:
>
> 1)  Don't pass X-* (or anything else, really) from one leg to another.
> If you want to pass specific X- headers (or anything else), set them
> explicitly on the outbound leg.
> 2)  Make the behavior configurable with a channel variable and/or
> sofia config option:
>
> {sip_pass_headers=all|none|X-MyCustomHeaderByName}
>
>  Thoughts?