[Freeswitch-users] sip profile - accept-blind-auth vs

[Michael Jerris]

auth-calls false means we won't challenge invite, accept-blind-auth means if auth headers are there, we ignore them.

Mike

On Aug 21, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> in the past I used to set:
> 
> <param name="auth-calls" value="false"/>
> 
> in the sip profile in order to skip user authentication for calls.
> 
> Lately I started to play a bit with 1.2 stable branch and seems that 
> setting auth-calls to false is no longer doing what I expected, calls 
> being challenged for user authentication.
> 
> Setting instead the accept-blind-auth to false got me what I wanted, like:
> 
>     <!-- accept any authentication without actually checking (not a 
> good feature for most people) -->
>     <param name="accept-blind-auth" value="true"/>
> 
> But from the comment (checked the wiki as well, but has the same text) 
> is a bit unclear what is the real purpose for it.
> 
> Isn't auth-calls=false supposed to accept calls without user 
> authentication anymore?
> 
> For this particular case, I play some announcements, like 'user not 
> available', and should work also for calls coming from outside. The 
> access is restricted by IP address ACL, allowing SIP traffic only from 
> my Kamailio instance.