On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 11:32 +0530, Nataraju A B wrote: > I personally feel its better to cache the credentials for a short > duration. Hence we can reduce the request/response transactions if the > messaging happens very often. Once the time expired then that set of > credentials become stale, after that message would be authenticated as > new requests. If you mean that the server should not check credentials for some requests, that is certainly within the rules (whether or not it is a good idea depends on circumstances).
> Just for instance, assume (OMA POC) client is synchronizing with server, > this generate a series of HTTP requests. If the credentials were cached, > then it reduces a large % of messaging. If the client and server are doing things correctly, any number of messages in HTTP and any number in the same dialog in SIP can be authenticated with only one challenge and one extra request. -- Scott Lawrence tel:+1-781-938-5306;ext=162 or sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sipXpbx project coordinator - SIPfoundry http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipX Chief Architect - Pingtel Corp. http://www.pingtel.com/ _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
