IPP>MOD - HTML and IPP streams

IPP>MOD - HTML and IPP streams

Robert Herriot Robert.Herriot at Eng.Sun.COM
Thu Feb 27 16:06:37 EST 1997


> From rdebry at us.ibm.com Thu Feb 27 09:40:59 1997
> From: rdebry at us.ibm.com
> 
> ... I'd suggest the following relative to the use of HTML
> and IPP:
> 
> A Web Browser must support HTML (pretty obvious)
> 
> An IPP Client must support IPP, and may optionally support HTML
> 
> An IPP Server must support IPP and may optionally support HTML.
> 
> I don't think that we can say that an IPP Server MUST support HTML in
> order to be IPP compliant. Actually sounds pretty silly to me to say that
> HTML is required to be IPP compliant!  I don't think that this is an
> interoperability issue, is it?
> 


Actually, we did say that an IPP server must support IPP AND HTML because
if HTML is optional, then a client which expects HTML, must have a fallback.
If  clients must have a fallback to IPP, then no server need have HTML.


I think the primary issue is whether a server gives exactly the same
information and capabilities via IPP and HTML.



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