IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Notifications

Re: IPP> Notifications

Jay Martin (jkm@underscore.com)
Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:43:34 -0500

> Anyway, polling might not be elegant, but I think it can do the job. With
> HTTP/1.1, the client will be polling over a persistant connection,
>
> <RKD> So you assume that we would keep a connection open until
> <RKD> a print job is completed and a notification provided? I
> <RKD> don't know if I'd agree that this is a good idea.

I agree with Roger. Maintaining a connection for the lifetime
of the job will not scale very well in large environments.

Maintaining a constant connection might be ok for the "Internet fax
printer" scenario, but it just won't fly in the enterprise.

...jay

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