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Re: [reSIProcate] Content-Length is not taken seriously by SipMessage


Derek MacDonald wrote:
It isn't ignored for TCP; it is ignored for UDP.  The rational for this is
people are more likely to get their content length wrong as opposed to stray
bytes in a UDP packet.

And that works just fine until some bozo notices that the specification requires, at a MUST level, implementations to ignore extra cruft in UDP packets, and decides it's a safe place to piggyback some proprietary information or diagnostics. Yes: bad them, but it takes two to dance this particular tango, and you've just volunteered.

/a