[Freeswitch-users] Relay Proxy-Authentication requests to thecaller

[Madovsky]

Dave,

you're wrong to use FS as transcoder only
as Kristian, I and other said
real SIP proxy servers as Opensips, Kamalio are built to use it as you need


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Horton" <dave at dchorton.com>
To: "Kristian Kielhofner" <kris at kriskinc.com>
Cc: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Relay Proxy-Authentication requests to 
thecaller


>
> In my case, I am trying to use it as a simple transcoding server.  And the 
> rich media support of codecs, and the ease of managing multiple sip 
> profiles and setting up a back-to-back user agent scenario lend themselves 
> quite well to the task IMO.  I don't think the other solutions handle 
> media or transcoding at all (correct me if I'm wrong) so trying to build 
> the solution using those platforms would actually leave quite a lot of 
> heavy lifting to do.
>
> I have built a lot of SIP apps over the past 10 years, on a lot of 
> different networks, and I have found that it is critical to be able to 
> tweak SIP headers to make these interop.  I wish it weren't the case, but 
> it has been and still remains so.  FS seems to only allow true custom 
> headers (e.g., X- headers) to be manipulated at this level, and I find it 
> to be a shortcoming.
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
>
> These requests have baffled me...
>
> Are you trying to use FreeSWITCH as an outbound proxy (or something)?
>
> This type of low-level SIP mangling is usually more well suited to
> OpenSIPS, Kamailio, etc.  Even then you'd have some work cut out for
> you...
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Dave Horton <dave at dchorton.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had the same question/issue myself, and would be interested to know if
>> there is a way.  For myself, I had to do two things to get this to work:
>> 1.  Disable authentication so that FS would not itself generate a 
>> challenge.
>>  In vars.xml I added this:
>>  <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="set" data="internal_auth_calls=false"/>
>> and in my internal.xml (because calls were coming in on my internal
>> profile):
>>    <param name="accept-blind-auth" value="true"/>
>> 2. Then I had to hack mod_sofia to create a new channel variable 
>> containing
>> the received Proxy-Authorization on the inbound leg, and also let me set 
>> it
>> on the outbound leg.
>> After that it worked, but I would still prefer a solution that didn't
>> require changing mod_sofia, if one exists...
>>
>>>> Hi All!
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>> I would like to know if  there is a param we could set in sofia profile 
>>>> to
>>>> let freeswitch relay Proxy-Authentication requests to the caller 
>>>> instead of
>>>> absorbing it.
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>> Regards,
>>
>>>> Hamid
>>
>>
>>
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>
> -- 
> Kristian Kielhofner
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