SIP Protocol Messages

Requests

• INVITE Indicates that a user is being invited to join a session.
• ACK Confirms that client has received a response to the invite message.
• BYE Terminates a call.
• CANCEL Cancels any Pending Searches.
• OPTIONS Queries for Capabilities.
• REGISTER Registers the Address listed in the header field with a SIP Server.

Responses

1xx Informational Messages

• 100 Trying: Indicates that a request has been initiated by the caller and the called party has yet not been located.
• 180 Ringing: Indicates that the called party has been located and is being notified of the call.
• 181 Call is being forwarded: Indicates that the called party has rerouted the call to another.
• 182 Queued: Indicates that the called party is currently not available, and have put the call in queue.
• 183 Session in Progress

2xx Successful Responses

• 200 OK: Indicates that the request has been successfully processed.

3xx Redirection Responses

• 300 Multiple Choices: Indicates that the address resolved to more than one location.
• 301 Moved permanently: Indicates user is no longer available at this location, an alternate location should be included in the header.
• 302 Moved Temporarily: Indicates that the user in temporarily unavailable, an alternate location should be included in the header.
• 305 Use Proxy: This response indicates that the caller must use a proxy to contact the called party.
• 380 Call is not successful but alternate services are available.

4xx Request Failure Responses

• 400 Bad Request: Indicates the request sent could not be understood.
• 401 Unauthorized Request: Indicates the request requires authorization.
• 402 Payment Required: Indicates payment is required to complete the call.
• 403 Forbidden: Indicates Server has received the request but will not provide the service.
• 404 Not Found: Indicates the server was not found.
• 405 Method Not Allowed: Indicates that the request contains a list of methods that are not allowed.
• 406 Not acceptable: Indicates that the request can not be processed by the client.
• 407 Proxy Authentication Required: Client must first authenticate itself with a proxy.
• 408 Request Timeout: The server could not produce a response before a given time out.
• 409 Conflict: Indicates a conflict with the current state of the resource.
• 410 Gone: Resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address was found.
• 411 Length Required: User refuses request without a specified length.
• 412 Request Entity Too Large: Server refuses to process request because URI is too long.
• 415 Unsupported Media: Indicates the format of the body is not supported by the destination endpoint.
• 420 Bad Extension: The server could not understand the protocol extension indicated in the required header.
• 480 Temporarily Unavailable: Indicates that the called party was contacted but was temporarily unavailable.
• 481 Call Leg Transaction Does Not Exist: Indicates that the server was ignoring the request of bye or cancel since there is no matching Invite transaction.
• 482 Loop Detected: (Also, Request Merged) Server received a request which has it self in the path.
• 483 Too Many Hops: The server received a request that required more hops than allowed.
• 484 Incomplete Address: The server received a request with an incomplete address.
• 485 Ambiguous: Server received a request in which the called address is ambiguous.
• 486 Busy Here: The called party was contacted but the system was not able to receive any more calls.
• 487 Request Terminated: The calling party canceled the request before the dialogue was established with a 200 OK.
• 488 Not Acceptable Here
• 489 Bad Event: See RFC3265
• 491 Request Pending
• 493 Undecipherable
• 494 Security Agreement Required: See RFC3329

5xx Server Failure Responses

• 500 Server Internal Error: Server encountered an unexpected error and could not process the request
• 501 Not Implemented: Server does not support the functions required to complete the request.
• 502 Bad Gateway: Server received an invalid request upstream.
• 503 Service Unavailable: Server has an overload or maintenance problem.
• 504 Gateway Timeout: Server did not receive a timely response from another server.
• 505 Version Not Supported: Server does not support the SIP protocol used in the request.

6xx Global Failure Responses

• 600 Busy Everywhere: Called party is busy and cannot take the call at this time.
• 603 Decline: Called party was contacted but does not want to take part in the call.
• 604 Does Not Exist Anywhere: Called Party does not exist anywhere in the network.
• 606 Not Acceptable: Called party has rejected some part of the call session description as unacceptable.

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