[reSIProcate] Content-Length is not taken seriously by SipMessage
Adam Roach
adam at nostrum.com
Thu Aug 3 21:54:42 CDT 2006
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
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