IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> MOD - Status codes

Re: IPP> MOD - Status codes

Robert Herriot (Robert.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:21:24 -0700

> From Keith_Carter@aussmtp.austin.ibm.com Fri Apr 25 10:53:38 1997
> Tom,
> (4) I think we need to make them type 2 keywords, correct?
>
> KC>> Yes, we need to make status codes type 2 keywords. I'll change
> KC>> "extension-code = 3DIGIT" to "extension-code = type 2 keyword".

If we accept the value syntax in my protocol document, keywords must start with
an ALPHA so that they are distinguishable from integer. So the extension-code
should not be a type 2 keyword, though it may be a type 2 integer.

> (8) ISSUE:
> Since multiple documents isn't indicated by an attribute, but rather
> by the content that is sent, we need a distinct error code:
>
> multiple-documents-not-supported
>

There is another way around this problem. If we believe that jobs are
always encoded in MIME, then the attribute formats-supported contains
values, such as application/postscript and application/vnd.hp-PCL. If
the formats-supported attribute also contains a value of
multipart/mixed, then the Printer accepts multiple documents.