The headers are used to pass the callee-id info back to the other side so
you have the id of who you called.
The standards have failed us in this case as everything does it differently
to the point that there is no standard thus we have invented our own way to
carry this across from one FreeSWITCH box to another, but of course we can
never make anybody happy. =/


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Kristian Kielhofner <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Brian,
>
>  This bothers me a bit.
>
>  Of course they are "valid".  Anything prefixed with X- should be
> ignored by the remote end unless they are specifically looking for it.
>
>  However:
>
> 1)  We all know that just because the spec says they are valid doesn't
> make it so with every vendor.
> 2)  As long as these headers are being attached people are going to
> keep coming to the list with issues because of them.
> 3)  Attaching (seemingly arbitrary) headers like this breaks "interop
> agreements" that we (the users) have with carriers and other vendors.
> Every header we add is another reason why $CARRIER will refuse to
> support me because "my INVITE doesn't match what I had during interop
> testing".
> 4)  Why do we /need/ these headers in the first place?  What is using
> them?  If we don't really, really, really need them they shouldn't be
> there.
> 5)  Depending on the reason for them being there, this should still be
> configurable.  I just don't see why not.  Obviously we could always
> just patch the code (Sonus log statements :) but that probably
> shouldn't be necessary here.
>
>  I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just looking for a better
> explanation and real discussion.
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Brian West <[email protected]> wrote:
> > No you can't remove them... And they are 100% valid so your SBC is in the
> > wrong.
> > /b
> > On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Ujjval Karihaloo wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I used the downlaoded TAR ball and my calls worked, however, when
> upgrading
> > to the SVN release...my SBC is rejecting the 200 OK (when the FS answers
> the
> > call - using Conferencing app)..
> >
> > Here are teh bad and good 200 OK,,,,I see a lot of additional headers
> > startin gwith X:FS , can I remove them?
> >
> >
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