On 01/13/2011 08:57 AM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>
> 13 jan 2011 kl. 15.36 skrev Paul Kyzivat:
>
>> Also, the following from the description of 488:
>>
>>    A message body containing a description of media capabilities MAY be
>>    present in the response, which is formatted according to the Accept
>>    header field in the INVITE (or application/sdp if not present), the
>>    same as a message body in a 200 (OK) response to an OPTIONS request.
>>
>> could be used to indicate support, say for ipv6 and not ipv4. Then the
>> offerer could analyze that (if I received such an offer, what would I
>> answer) and if it comes up with something workable it can then send a
>> new invite with that as the offer.
>
> Thanks Paul - I actually noticed that yesterday while reading the RFC for the 
> Nth time...
> I must add that I have never ever seen that happen in real SIP communication.
> I think it's very clever though.
>
> I think that's a question to add to Robert's questionnaire at SIPits:
>
> - Does your UA add an SDP to a 488 error message?
>
> Asking for it is a good way to indicate that it's possible and a preferred 
> way of handling errors.

Indeed, that's a very useful thing to know about :-) Presumably the 
488's SDP would indicate "if you had constructed your offer this way, I 
would have been able to accept it"?

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