Hello
Mike just brought up an important point, that chunking can be removed when
the client receives it. Michael just raised the suggestion that multi-part
be used. I like that idea.
I had thought that using a tag to mark the end of each event notification
attributes group was a good idea, but I'm now thinking differently.
A well-designed client or server will separate http processing from ipp
processing. When the client asks for Get-Notifications with waiting, one
layer should be handling receiving the http, and when a complete event
group is received, pass it to the ipp processor to parse and handle. But
the http parser shouldn't need to be doing ipp parsing to know when it's
done receiving a full event group, which is why the
end-of-event-notification-attributes-group-tag idea isn't good. Mike's
point prevents the client from using chunking to determine the end of an
event group.
Short of doing away with wait mode, is there anything besides multi-part
that solves this problem?
Marty