[OpenSER-Users] Status code 408 returned by OpenSER when fr_timer expires; should it be 504?

[Klaus Darilion]

Anatoly Pidruchny schrieb:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I noticed that OpenSER replies with status code "408 Request Timeout" 
> when the fr_timer (tm module) expires. I am wondering if the response 
> code "504 Server Timeout" would be more appropriate in this case. The 
> status code 408 means that "the server could not produce a response, 
> e.g., a user location, within the time indicated in the Expires 
> request-header field. The client MAY repeat the request without 
> modifications at any later time."; and the status code 504 means "the 
> server did not receive a timely response from an external server it 

What if there is a 180 ringing response from the upstream server, but no 
200 OK within fr_timeout. Is this a "timely response"?

Further, usually 5xx are server internal errors. Thus, If an upstream 
timeout is triggered, IMO this is not a server error.

regards
klaus

> accessed in attempting to process the request." It sounds to me that the 
> description of the status code 504 better describes what happens in 
> OpenSER when the fr_timer expires. Any comments? I am using OpenSER 1.2.x.
> 
> Best regards,
> Anatoly Pidruchny.
> 
> 
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