A 488 Not Acceptable Here means the request may succeed elsewhere and applies only to the resource addressed and may carry a body describing the media capabilities the responder does support.

fact · verified 2026-09-15

The response has the same meaning as 606 (Not Acceptable) but only applies to the specific resource addressed by the Request-URI and the request may succeed elsewhere.
Vendor
IETF
Product
Session Initiation Protocol
Subsystem
response codes
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-15
Status
fact
Confidence
0.90
Verified
2026-09-15

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WarmTransfer. (2026, September 15). SIP response codes and failure interpretation: claim sip-488-not-acceptable-here. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-488-not-acceptable-here

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-488-not-acceptable-here,
  title  = {SIP response codes and failure interpretation: claim sip-488-not-acceptable-here},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-488-not-acceptable-here},
  note   = {Claim sip-488-not-acceptable-here, verified 2026-09-15}
}

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