Archives November 2004
Sigh, looks like the collapse is coming... (Myopic, spendthrift policies to continue south of the border)
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Vindaloo.
It's interesting talking with people who are watching the US slide deeper and deeper into unsustainable debt while ticking off just about everyone else in the world. There's talk of massive recession, complete devaluation of the dollar, and basically a collapse of what passes for society down there.
The problem, of course, is that as ...
SIP the cool-aide (Little things are so irritating...)
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Snaking.
"So," figures I, "really should have at least some user authentication in the SIP server." Little did I realise that the Twisted code, while it supports authentication quite simply on the server, doesn't seem to have any code on the client side.
That is, the server can handle a client that knows how to authenticate, ...
Should have spent a day or two just familiarising myself with SIP (But oh well, that's life...)
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Snaking.
AFAICT, the SIP protocol has no agreed upon conventions for registering display-names or other meta-data. That is, while you can attach display-names to just about every URI, there's nothing stating which URI's display name should be considered canonical when parsing a registration request. For now I'm assuming I should display the contact field's display name. ...
Dratted consumer-level software (Trying to be helpful wastes 1.5 hours of my time...)
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Snaking.
Have discovered why it is that the dratted x-lite refuses to log in to my registration server despite the fact that clients written in Twisted work perfectly well. x-lite automatically searches for and finds the NAT firewall, then configures it's return address as the address of the firewall. Result is that the registration server responds ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.