IPP Mail Archive: IPP> PRO - Issue 2.7 - regarding Disabling chunking responses

IPP> PRO - Issue 2.7 - regarding Disabling chunking responses

Hastings, Tom N (hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:14:23 -0700

With respect to Issue 2.7, the answer is proposed to be:

Add to the IIG (IPP Implementers Guide):

Clients should anticipate that the IPP server may chunk responses and should
handle them. However, a client that is not fully conformant MAY attempt to
request an HTTP 1.1 server to not use chunking in its response to an
operation by using the following HTTP header:

TE: identity

This mechanism should not be used by an IPP server to disable an IPP client
from chunking a request.

So I guess we need to keep it that way, ok?

Tom

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Masinter [mailto:masinter@parc.xerox.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 23:46
>To: Hastings, Tom N
>Cc: Carl-Uno Manros; Xavier Riley
>Subject: RE: Disabling chunking responses
>
>
>> Is this technique for disabling chunking ok to use?
>
>I'm suspicious, but it looks legal.
>
>> How wide-spread is its support?
>
>This is something that I don't know; there are reports of
>support, but it's a market issue rather than a technical
>one. Test.
>
>> Is it an HTTP 1.1 only feature?
>
>Chunking is HTTP/1.1 only, so disabling it is too.
>
>Sorry I can't be more helpful.
>