Incorrect (?) quoting means ekiga/libopal can't connect to some sip services

[David Gibson]

I was unable to connect to my ISP's VOIP service (Internode Australia's "NodePhone") using Ekiga. It always gave a "Forbidden" error message when attempting to register. I was able to connect with Twinkle and with sipsak.

After some wiresharking and experimentation I discovered that this was because Ekiga was putting double quotes around the nonce count field of the Authorization header (e.g. nc="00000001") whereas the other clients were not (e.g. nc=00000001). Apparently the extra quotes caused this particular SIP server to reject the registration with a "403 Forbidden".

This bug already appears to have been fixed in libopal's upstream SVN (see http://www.opalvoip.org/websvn/comp.php?repname=Opal&path=%2F&compare[]=%2Fopal%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2Fsip@19230&compare[]=%2Fopal%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2Fsip@19241). But it would certainly be nice to pull the fix back into intrepid.

I'm currently in the process of uploading a package with the fix to my PPA.

[David Gibson (dwg)]

Fixed package is now ready in my PPA. With this installed I'm able to connect to NodePhone with Ekiga and make calls.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in Jaunty's 3.4.2.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Sponsored to intrepid-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

David, anyone else, can you please test the intrepid-proposed package?

[David Gibson (dwg)]

Sorry, I've been away over Christmas. Looks like the 2.0.12-0ubuntu5 package works, or at least, doesn't suffer from this particular bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package opal - 2.2.11~dfsg1-4ubuntu1

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opal (2.2.11~dfsg1-4ubuntu1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Don't quote nonce count in Authorization header, this fixes
    problems connection to some SIP services including NodePhone
    (Internode, Australia). Backported from upstream SVN.
    (LP: #297123)

 -- David Gibson <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:51:58 +1100

[Darren Spiteri (dspiteri)]

This bug affects Hardy LTS as well. I applied this patch and Ekiga now works fine with Nodephone.