COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

A communication apparatus for communicating with an information processing apparatus includes a memory containing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to function as a communication unit to perform communication between the communication apparatus and the information processing apparatus, an analysis unit to analyze an execution request of a function of the communication apparatus using a predetermined communication protocol that has been received from the information processing apparatus, and an execution unit to, when the execution request of the function is determined to not comply with a specification of the predetermined communication protocol because the execution request of the function does not include header information as a result of the analysis by the analysis unit, transmit a response using the predetermined communication protocol on condition that at least the execution request of the function is an execution request of a specific function, and execute the specific function.