Re: [MMUSIC] RTSP: dest_addr in the response

["Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi.denis-courmont at nokia.com>]

On Friday 31 October 2008 09:51:44 ext HAAS Christian, you wrote:
> From: Behalf Of Rémi Denis-Courmont
>
> > > Responses to request including the Transport header with a dest_addr
> > > parameter SHALL include the full destination address that is actually
> > > used by the server.
> >
> > I don't really care. I think this informations is of no use to the
> > client anyway.
>
> I also see this of little use for the client -- at most it could verify
> that the IP is actually his own.
> But I'd suggest it to be good practice (SHOULD) to return the full address
> for debugging/tracing.

Now that you mention it, it would allow immediately detecting NAT error 
scenarios, instead of waiting for some implementation-specific timeout.

Should the client also not be required to include the address? Then the server 
will reject the query (in the common case) if it does not match the remote 
address of the control connection.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Maemo Software, Nokia Devices R&D
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