[reSIProcate] Uri.cxx and encoding

[Daniel Pocock]

Dale R. Worley wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:23 +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
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>>b) compatibility - some other SIP implementations send the # symbol 
>>un-encoded (Asterisk), and expect to receive this symbol un-encoded (we 
>>have found one case of this with someone using a Nextone/Cisco combination)
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>>See
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>>http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/resiprocate-devel/msg04248.html
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>OK, I'm starting to remember now.
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>>From a theoretical point of view, I would argue that any change which
>allows Resip to send invalid URIs should be avoided at all costs.  But
>we may be stuck having to deal with this as a compatibility issue.  It's
>not clear that it's worth expending energy to make such horrible hacks
>*efficient*.
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It's not about making the hack efficient - it actually makes the whole 
Uri processing operate more efficiently.  The hack for sending # is just 
a bonus.

The behaviour is only enabled at the discretion of the application 
developer, who could achieve the same thing by hacking up the code 
himself.  I believe my comments in the code do provide some hint that 
these methods make the Uris non RFC 2396 compliant, so hopefully they 
won't be used excessively or by mistake.

>As a meta-issue, remember that when you post code, your readers may not
>remember why the code was written, and you would probably get better
>responses if you remind them.
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That's a good point, VoIP is a fast moving area of open source 
development and I'm sure there are probably a few new people on the list 
in the weeks since I made the original post.