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Prologue:
Epilogue: Roger K deBry
Senior Techncial Staff Member
Architecture and Technology
IBM Printing Systems
email: rdebry at us.ibm.com
phone: 1-303-772-2479
---------------------- Forwarded by Roger K Debry/Boulder/IBM on 01/29/97 11:23
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Bill Wagner wrote:
1. Browsing for status using a standard IP browser is done now, by DPI
(http server in the NIC) as well as Lexmark and others. If the spec
says that "all" interaction is done via POST, I think that is an error
in the spec; that is neither reasonable nor workable.
RKD> If we decide to use HTTP, than I believe that the only
RKD> reasonable and workable solution for IPP protocol operations
RKD> is to use POST. You may have existing schemes to browse
RKD> for status, but that's outside of IPP.
Printing is a different question. It seems particularly cumbersome
to use a browser to submit print jobs (print to file using the
appropriate driver, and then transfer the file using the browser??)
RKD> I would hope there is no argument on this!
Then, the question might be, once you have loaded a redirector, why
continue to use HTTP for job delivery?
RKD> One might also ask "Why not!