1xx = informational responses

  • 100 Trying
  • 180 Ringing
  • 181 Call Is Being Forwarded
  • 182 Queued
  • 183 Session Progress

2xx = success responses

  • 200 OK
  • 202 accepted: Used for referrals

3xx = redirection responses

  • 300 Multiple Choices
  • 301 Moved Permanently
  • 302 Moved Temporarily
  • 305 Use Proxy
  • 380 Alternative Service

4xx = request failures

  • 400 Bad Request
  • 401 Unauthorized: Used only by registrars. Proxys should use proxy authorization 407
  • 402 Payment Required (Reserved for future use)
  • 403 Forbidden
  • 404 Not Found: User not found
  • 405 Method Not Allowed
  • 406 Not Acceptable
  • 407 Proxy Authentication Required
  • 408 Request Timeout: Couldn’t find the user in time
  • 410 Gone: The user existed once, but is not available here any more.
  • 413 Request Entity Too Large
  • 414 Request-URI Too Long
  • 415 Unsupported Media Type
  • 416 Unsupported URI Scheme
  • 420 Bad Extension: Bad SIP Protocol Extension used, not understood by the server
  • 421 Extension Required
  • 423 Interval Too Brief
  • 480 Temporarily Unavailable
  • 481 Call/Transaction Does Not Exist
  • 482 Loop Detected
  • 483 Too Many Hops
  • 484 Address Incomplete
  • 485 Ambiguous
  • 486 Busy Here
  • 487 Request Terminated
  • 488 Not Acceptable Here
  • 491 Request Pending
  • 493 Undecipherable: Could not decrypt S/MIME body part

5xx = server errors

  • 500 Server Internal Error
  • 501 Not Implemented: The SIP request method is not implemented here
  • 502 Bad Gateway
  • 503 Service Unavailable
  • 504 Server Time-out
  • 505 Version Not Supported: The server does not support this version of the SIP protocol
  • 513 Message Too Large

6xx = global failures

  • 600 Busy Everywhere
  • 603 Decline
  • 604 Does Not Exist Anywhere
  • 606 Not Acceptable