Administrator’s Guide SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP

Method

Supported

Notes

 

 

 

INFO

Yes

RFC 2976, the phone does not generate INFO

 

 

requests, but will issue a final response upon

 

 

receipt. No INFO message bodies are parsed.

 

 

 

MESSAGE

Yes

Final response is sent upon receipt. Message

 

 

bodies of type text/plain are sent and received.

 

 

 

UPDATE

Yes

 

 

 

 

Header Support

The following SIP request headers are supported:

Note

In the following table, a “Yes” in the Supported column means the header is sent

 

and properly parsed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Header

Supported

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

Accept

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accept-Encoding

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accept-Language

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alert-Info

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allow

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allow-Events

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authentication-Info

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authorization

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call-ID

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call-Info

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Content-Disposition

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

Content-Encoding

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

Content-Language

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

Content-Length

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Content-Type

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSeq

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date

No

 

 

 

 

 

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