IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Proposal for new IPP scheme

Re: IPP> Proposal for new IPP scheme

Robert Herriot (robert.herriot@Eng.Sun.COM)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:31:17 -0700

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I agree that the port hits the wire, but there is nothing on the wire that
identifies it as
a default port. I think that we all agreed to this in today's teleconference.

Bob Herriot

At 05:40 PM 6/16/98 , don@lexmark.com wrote:
>Bob Herriot said:
>
>>Actually the default port never hits the wire either. Both the default
>port
>>and the ipp scheme-name are smoke and mirrors on the client which give the
>>illusion of an ipp scheme.
>>
>>On the wire there is nothing but http with default port 80.
>
>Oh, Bob, I disagree. The port does hit the wire one way or another. While
>the protocol encoding does not contain the port being used, what precedes
>the exchange of data does use a specific port (374 in Randy's and Larry's
>example)
>
>**********************************************
>* Don Wright don@lexmark.com *
>* Product Manager, Strategic Alliances *
>* Lexmark International *
>* 740 New Circle Rd *
>* Lexington, Ky 40550 *
>* 606-232-4808 (phone) 606-232-6740 (fax) *
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I agree that the port hits the wire, but there is nothing on the wire that identifies it as
a default port. I think that we all agreed to this in today's teleconference.

Bob Herriot

At 05:40 PM 6/16/98 , don@lexmark.com wrote:
>Bob Herriot said:
>
>>Actually the default port never hits the wire either.  Both the default
>port
>>and the ipp scheme-name are smoke and mirrors on the client which give the
>>illusion of an ipp scheme.
>>
>>On the wire there is nothing but http with default port 80.
>
>Oh, Bob, I disagree.  The port does hit the wire one way or another.  While
>the protocol encoding does not contain the port being used, what precedes
>the exchange of data does use a specific port (374 in Randy's and Larry's
>example)
>
>**********************************************
>* Don Wright                 don@lexmark.com *
>* Product Manager, Strategic Alliances       *
>* Lexmark International                      *
>* 740 New Circle Rd                          *
>* Lexington, Ky 40550                        *
>* 606-232-4808 (phone) 606-232-6740 (fax)    *
>**********************************************
>

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