[Asterisk-Dev] SIP overhead lenght

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Wed Apr 27 11:26:52 MST 2005


Michael Giagnocavo wrote:
>>>The question : How many bits is used to code each character ?
>>
>>What are you asking? SIP is based on the same RFCs that underly HTTP, 
>>and as such the headers are all in ASCII. That means each character is 8 
>>bits, but I can't believe you didn't already know that, since it has 
>>nothing to do with SIP at all...
> 
> 
> Actually, if it's ASCII, it means the characters are 7-bits. 
> 
Actually, a lot of SIP is utf-8, 8-bit.

/O



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