[Koha-devel] Sip2 and Sip.pm

[Colin Campbell]

On 07/06/2009 05:00 PM, Joe Atzberger wrote:

> I agree with you on what the spec says, but at the time of
> implementation, ZERO clients available to Koha developers actually
> behaved that way, including the reference implementation from 3M.  At
> this time, the number of such clients available to us is still zero.  We
> would need more information about the clients in question:
I'm talking from the experience of supporting a number of clients 
(including 3M) on sockets connections. As to telnet, I've only used that 
to debug connections, in practical terms it seems approprate only for 
the older clients.

> When do you imagine it would be appropriate for a SIP client to send,
> for example, a BELL character or BACKSPACE character?
I don't but the robustness principle appliers, 'be liberal in what you 
accept, be conservative in what you transmit'

> You could still run a middle layer on localhost.  But if it can be
> handled cleanly via SIPconfig, I would support that.
>
Cheers
Colin

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