Supplying login and password via DHCP option 160 (or 66)

[Anonymous]

Form the (official) document bellow it seems the following would be valid:

https://provisioning.server;USER=user; PASSWORD=password

http://support.polycom.com/global/documents/support/technical/products/voice/Optimizing_Boot_Speed_o...

What happens in reality, according to Polycom app log, is that it tries DNS lookup on entire string, obviosly failing:

"DNS lookup failed for https://provisioning.server;USER=user; PASSWORD=password"

We've also tried https://user:password@provisioning.server, similar to what is being proposed here:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Database+driven+Polycom+provisioning+with+Asterisk+RealTime

admiteddly it talks about FTP, not HTTPS.

In this case phone does not even try DNS lookup, as it apparently can't parse this notation as a valid URL.

When only URL is supplied, without credentials, provisioning works as expected.

Tried with vvx 300.

Questions:

Can login and password be supplied via DHCP option 160 (or 66)?

What other valid secure provisioning methods exist?

https + login/password condireded good approach to provisioning?

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

In our environment, on our DHCP server we specified a Server Option (inside our phone scope) of 066 Boot Server Host Name and used a string value like this:

ftp://poly:poly123@192.168.1.10

On 192.168.1.10 we have an FTP server running with a user named poly and a password as poly123 with full access to our Polycom_UC_software folder.

Note accounts and IP's are generic examples only.  Can't say we've worked on other protocols but ftp satisfies our requirements.  I hope it help!