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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 3:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Sip] SIP question: headers
> 
> 
> Dear all,
>  
> I'm new in the domain of VoIP and SIP, and while reading SIP 
> (RFC 2543) and
> RFC2543bis-04 I encountered a problem with the contents of table 4.
> 
> The problem is how to understand the table correctly.
> For example: The first line specifies that the "allow" header 
> can occur in
> all Request messages except in the ACK, because the WHERE 
> column indicates
> R, and in each column related to an individual Request the 
> "o" indicates
> that it is optional, except for the ACK. The second line 
> specifies that it
> can occur in response 415, but how should I interpret the "o" 
> fields in the
> columns concerning the Request messages (INVITE? REGISTER, ...) ?

These are responses to those particular requests. So, an o in the INVITE
column means that the header is optional in responses to INVITE.

> 
> A second problem, related to this is that headers, marked as 
> response (e.g.
> warning) also have the "o" (optional) indication in all 
> Requests. Does this
> mean that this respone header could also be present in a Request ?

This means they can appear in responses to all request methods.

I will clarify this.

Thanks,
Jonathan R.
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