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SIP transport protocol transcoding in OpenSIPS

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Introduction This is the final article in my series about fixing SIP header addresses. It broadly overlaps with the theme of the earlier articles. As a VoIP solutions designer, you may want your proxy server to deliberately transcode between different transport protocols. For example, WebRTC to TCP or TLS to UDP. This is possible with … Read more


Fixing SIP header addresses – Contact headers

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Part 3 of this series of articles focusses on the Contact header. In particular, I examine the use-cases where it is necessary to “fix” (or alter) a received Contact header. Contact headers work in close combination with Record-Route and Route headers in a mechanism known as loose routing. To get the most from this article … Read more


Fixing SIP header addresses – Introduction

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The main theme I explore in these articles is when and how a SIP Proxy should alter (or “fix”) embedded sender address information – IP and port – in a SIP request that it has received. The headers that are most relevant here are Via, Contact and Record-Route


Contact and Record-Route headers explained

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Diagnosing some problems in the world of VoIP requires close inspection of the SIP messages being exchanged, but there are many occasions where a good understanding of loose routing will be invaluable. The headers that underpin loose routing are Contact, Record-Route and Route. In this post, I explain how they work and provide some insight … Read more