X-ciscoipphonesdkversion, Accept header – Cisco OL-20949-01 User Manual

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Cisco Unified IP Phone Services Application Development Notes

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Chapter 6 HTTP Requests and Header Settings

Accept Header

x-CiscoIPPhoneSDKVersion

This Cisco-proprietary header contains the version of the IP Phone Services SDK that the requesting
phone supports. The HTTP header does not specify which URIs are supported. Therefore, you must
check the “Supported URIs” matrix in the IP Phone Services SDK to determine which URIs are
supported based on the Phone Model Name and supported SDK version.

See

Table 5-1

table to find which IP phone models support the URIs documented in this SDK.

Note

Beginning with the IP Phone Services SDK 3.3(3), the SDK version number matches the minimum
Cisco Unified Communications Manager software that is required to support it. For example, SDK
version 3.3(4) gets supported only on Cisco Communications Manager version 3.3(4) or later.

Accept Header

The Accept header represents a standard HTTP header that is used to inform web servers about the
content-handling capabilities of the client.

Cisco Unified IP Phones include proprietary content-types to indicate which XML objects are
supported. These proprietary content-types all begin with x-CiscoIPPhone, to indicate
Cisco Unified IP Phone XML objects, followed by a slash “/”, followed by either a specific XML object
or a “*” to indicate all objects.

For example, x-CiscoIPPhone/* indicates that all XML objects defined in the specified version of the
SDK are supported, and x-CiscoIPPhone/Menu specifies that the

<CiscoIPPhoneMenu>

object gets

supported.

As the example illustrates, the name of the XML object can be derived directly from the content-type by
appending the sub-type (the part after the slash) onto “CiscoIPPhone.” The content-type can also include
an optional version to indicate support for a particular SDK version of that object. If a version is not
specified, then the x-CiscoIPPhoneSDKVersion is implied. The syntax of the version number may vary,
but, in general, will be as follows:

<major version>.<minor version>.<maintenance version>

Here are some examples of typical content-types:

x-CiscoIPPhone/*;version=3.3.3

x-CiscoIPPhone/Text

x-CiscoIPPhone/Menu;version=3.3.4

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