IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> Identifying jobs in requests

RE: IPP> Identifying jobs in requests

JK Martin (jkm@underscore.com)
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:44:33 -0400 (EDT)

> also using URLs to imply the job id means that we are tied to a specific
> transport - something we tried to avoid. If we were to use , say, raw IP
> then you would need to assign an IP port to each job or something like
> that.

Is this really true? Do you mean we would be tying ourselves to HTTP
by using a URL as a job ID?

It would seem that just because we choose the use the syntax and
semantics of a URL doesn't mean we necessarily tie ourselves to HTTP,
right?

...jay