Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] register/cancel breakage

["Geoffrey D. Bennett" <g netcraft com au>]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 02:22:10PM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le samedi 18 mars 2006 à 23:44 +1030, Geoffrey D. Bennett a écrit :
[...]
> > Ekiga shows that the user is logged in now, but RFC 3261 Section 9.1
> > says "A CANCEL request SHOULD NOT be sent to cancel a request other
> > than INVITE."  I'm not sure what the purpose of trying to CANCEL that
> > REGISTER is anyway?
> > 
> 
> It had been like that in OPAL since years, and I left it like it was. I
> do not think it is not compliant, the RFC says "SHOULD NOT", not "MUST
> NOT".
> 
> However, I think it would be good if I removed it.
> Can you double-check that and post a bug report (ideally with a patch)?

You are right, it is SIP-compliant, but we're not actually trying to
CANCEL the registration request -- if the CANCEL succeeded there would
be a problem!

I've posted a bug report.  Unfortunately no patch -- I only started
trying to use Ekiga this evening so had never looked at its source,
let alone that of OPAL.

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