On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:37 -0800, Bob Penfield wrote:
> RFC 3261 section 13.2.2.3 says
> 
>    4xx, 5xx and 6xx responses may contain a Contact header field value
>    indicating the location where additional information about the error
>    can be found.

Yes, I'd say that that sentence meant to say "Error-Info", as in no
other place is "Contact" described as having a usage like that.

> But table 2 indicates it is only legal in a 485 response.
> 
>       Header field          where   proxy ACK BYE CAN INV OPT REG
>       ------------          -----   ----- --- --- --- --- --- ---
>       Contact                 R            o   -   -   m   o   o
>       Contact                1xx           -   -   -   o   -   -
>       Contact                2xx           -   -   -   m   o   o
>       Contact                3xx      d    -   o   -   o   o   o
>       Contact                485           -   o   -   o   o   o

>From the descriptions of the 4xx responses in section 21.4, it looks
like 485 is the only 4xx error which has use for Contact.

Dale


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