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

Re: IPP> Identifying jobs in requests

Jay Martin (jkm@underscore.com)
Wed, 03 Jun 1998 12:32:19 -0400

Randy Turner wrote:
>
> We use URIs to identify IPP objects. If we want IPP to maintain
> transport-independence, then we will always need to have some type of valid
> URI denoting the target of an IPP request inside our protocol.

Not necessarily. Sure, in the case of a demultiplexing front-end,
it would be necessary to have the target embedded in the protocol
message, but not necessary for single-Printer implementations.

I don't have a problem with embedding the target URI in the PDU,
but if we get into a big mess with regard to reconciling a similar
target in the outer/lower transport level (eg, HTTP), then we might
want to consider pulling out the embedded target URI.

It would be nice to hear from others on this topic.

...jay

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