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Re: IPP>MOD Should IPP notification use http as transport?

From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:24:44 -0400
Message-Id: <199908141324.JAA20680@astro.cs.utk.edu>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
cc: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, "Herriot,\ Robert" <Robert.Herriot@pahv.xerox.com>, ipp <ipp@pwg.org>, HTTP Working Group <http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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> I don't like this example (of using GET for printer status)
> without any cache-control headers, and with the presumption
> that the entity body is streamed with indefinite pauses. 

understood.  I realized that such headers would be needed when
I wrote the example, but am not so intimately familiar with
HTTP that I could cite them off the top of my head; and I didn't
want to take the time to look them up on a Friday night.  sorry.

I suspect that few present-day proxies will want to buffer the entire 
response before relaying it to the client, because buffreing the
entire response is now known to a significant and very annoying affect 
on response time.  

at any rate, to the extent that we believe that this technique won't 
work, then to me that is a good reason to abandon the idea of using 
HTTP for printer notifications.

> Also, the URI has a problem:
> 
> /printer/status/job#2343
> 
> Since '#' is a reserved character for fragment delimiter, and
> HTTP URIs don't de-encode the data, this is not a good example.

right you are.

Keith
Received on Saturday, 14 August 1999 06:31:25 UTC

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