Equipments which are liberal in what they receive and strict in what
they send should not have problem with this change.

Sanjay 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cullen Jennings (fluffy) 
>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:38 PM
>To: sip List
>Subject: Re: [Sip] SIPit 21: BNF and DIGEST authentication
>
>
>I'm worried that any change would break the things that 
>currently work. Any idea of how existing equipment would react?
>
>(yah, yah, with my individual contribute hat on - I hate 
>typing this more than you hate reading it)
>
>On Nov 19, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:
>
>> We are _still_ seeing interoperability problems because of quotes 
>> around the qop parameter value in challenges and responses.
>>
>> What's specified now is that quotes MUST appear in 
>challenges (it's a 
>> list of things) and MUST NOT appear in responses (it's a 
>choice of one 
>> thing).
>>
>> This causes lots of people to write broken code.
>>
>> For the code that does work, this causes people to either build 
>> separate parsers for headers with the same name, using the knowledge 
>> of whether its a challenge or response to invoke the right 
>parser, or 
>> to build parsers that don't follow the BNF we've provided.
>>
>> Would it make more sense to change the BNF to allow the quotes 
>> optionally in either the challenge or the response?
>>
>> Nobody that I've asked is actually re-using an HTTP parser for this, 
>> and nobody seems to be getting the number of values for the 
>parameter 
>> wrong. Most of the folks I ask are building their parsers this way 
>> anyhow
>>
>> What would be bad about making this change to the spec?
>>
>> RjS
>>
>>
>>
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