IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP>MOD Why use Job-Id instead of Job-URI for Jobs?

RE: IPP>MOD Why use Job-Id instead of Job-URI for Jobs?

Paul Moore (paulmo@microsoft.com)
Fri, 5 Sep 1997 16:19:06 -0700

It was felt that a URl syntax would be highly specifc to a server
implementation - ISAPI, ASP, CGI, .....
Specifying it would constrain the implementation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Martin [SMTP:jkm@underscore.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 1997 3:21 PM
> To: Robert Herriot
> Cc: ipp@pwg.org
> Subject: Re: IPP>MOD Why use Job-Id instead of Job-URI for Jobs?
>
> > But Microsoft clients cannot assume that all IPP servers will be
> > Microsoft servers. Thus the client has no sure way to parse the
> > Job-URI.
>
> So again I ask: exactly why can't (or shouldn't) we standardize on
> a Job URI syntax? (I really regret not being able to have made the
> Redmond meeting.)
>
> ...jay
>
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