[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0015442]: Asterisk cannot handle SIP 183 "Session Progress" if no SDP is contained in it

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=15442 
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Reported By:                ffloimair
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   15442
Category:                   Channels/chan_sip/Interoperability
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk Version:           1.4.25.1 
Regression:                 No 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2009-07-02 02:19 CDT
Last Modified:              2009-07-09 12:53 CDT
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Summary:                    Asterisk cannot handle SIP 183 "Session Progress" if
no SDP is contained in it
Description: 
We have a trunk to an Alcatel system running and they send "183 Session
Progress" SIP messages without SDP. However Asterisk cannot handle these
messages if they do not contain an SDP payload.

Alcatel refers to the SIP RFC3261 standard which states:
"The 183 (Session Progress) response is used to convey information
 about the progress of the call that is not otherwise classified.  The
 Reason-Phrase, header fields, or message body MAY be used to convey
 more details about the call progress."

The emphasis lies on MAY in the last sentence, so to be compliant with the
SIP standard Asterisk should be able to handle 183 messages without any SDP
in the message body.
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 (0107517) tkarl (reporter) - 2009-07-09 12:53
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=15442#c107517 
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I've also set up a SIP trunk to an Alcatel PBX one month ago and I have the
same problem here. This is still an open point in this project so I found
this issue here. 
Alcatel doesn't want to implement SDP for this status message, because it
is not required by the RFC.
Any help on this issue would be appreciated as I have the greatest
difficulty in arguing that.
Thank you very much in advance. 

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2009-07-09 12:53 tkarl          Note Added: 0107517                          
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