7. Error Situations
If a compressed SIP request arrives to a SIP server that does not understand SigComp, the server will not have any means to indicate the error to the client. The message will be impossible to parse, and there will be no Via header field indicating an address to send an error response. If a SIP client sends a compressed request and the client transaction times out without having received any response, the client SHOULD retry the same request without using compression. If the compressed request was sent over a TCP connection, the client SHOULD close that connection and open a new one to send the uncompressed request. Otherwise the server would not be able to detect the beginning of the new message.
