IPP> Duplicate ippget events

IPP> Duplicate ippget events

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Jul 27 14:39:42 EDT 2001


Marty Joel wrote:
> ...
> Actually, the client will receive duplicate events when it polls faster
> that the event timeout interval (which it must do to not lose events).
> There's a timestamp in each event, which the client must use to discard
> duplicates.

I can foresee some problems with this - the event timestamp is only
accurate to a second, and I can see many high-speed printers
generating more than 1 event per second!

Also, this increases the overhead on the server considerably.

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