Why to get into the debate of error response when this kind of error
is non-recoverable by the software? A 400 response for REFER (If
possible) with appropriate warning header is sufficient so that people
can diagnose the problem and fix the software.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:14 PM, KASTURI Narayanan (kasnaray)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since the URI scheme is understood by the Server ( Sip: etc) this may
> not be the right response.
>
> Any other response in the Notifyb  which otherwise the Proxy would have
> sent for such errors
>
> 500 Server Internal Error also is a Ok Response :-)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Arunachalam Venkatraman (arunvenk)
>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 9:26 AM
>> To: Paul Kyzivat (pkyzivat); Jitendra Singh Bhadoriya
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Call Transfer Scenario
>> :Refer-To Containingincorrect URI
>>
>> 416 Unsupported Uri Scheme fits the bill.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Paul Kyzivat (pkyzivat)
>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 8:41 AM
>> To: Jitendra Singh Bhadoriya
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Call Transfer Scenario :
>> Refer-To Containingincorrect URI
>>
>> Assuming this isn't detected until after the response has
>> been sent for the REFER, then I would send a single NOTIFY
>> with some suitable error indicating the problem. Of course in
>> this case you won't actually have received a sip error, so
>> you will have to simulate one. I am inclined to
>>
>> treat it as if you had forwarded the request to a proxy and
>> the proxy had encountered the error and returned a response to you.
>>
>> Its not entirely clear which sip error is most appropriate to
>> this case.
>>
>> I think I would go with 404, but there may be other
>> reasonable codes to use.
>>
>> I see no reason to send a NOTIFY with 100 Trying.
>>
>>       Paul
>>
>> Jitendra Singh Bhadoriya wrote:
>> > In my scenario the Refer-To URI was in the format
>> 'sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> > Where the DNS was not able to resolve the domain-name
>> 'domain.com' of
>> > the
>> >
>> > Host and so the client was not able to send the request out.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jitendra.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of
>> > Jitendra Singh Bhadoriya
>> > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 3:27 PM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: [Sip-implementors] Call Transfer Scenario : Refer-To
>> > Containingincorrect URI
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > In the call-transfer scenario in which A calls B and B
>> sends REFER to
>> A
>> > to transfer the call to C, but the REFER Request contains
>> some invalid
>> > URI in the Refer-To header, then in this case how should A
>> respond to
>> > the REFER Request.  In this case the A will not be able to send the
>> > INVITE  to
>> the
>> > target SIP client because the Refer-To URI is wrong, so
>> should it send
>> a
>> > NOTIFY with (100 trying in the body) and then a second NOTIFY with
>> some
>> > error Response in this second NOTIFY to the B party. OR  should it
>> send
>> > a
>> > single NOTIFY with some error response.
>> >
>> > Also please tell me what error response should A send to B, in the
>> body
>> > of NOTIFY??
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks &
>> > Regards,
>> > Jitendra.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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