IPP Mail Archive: Re: RE: IPP> MOD> Issue 1.19 [REVISITED - charset

Re: RE: IPP> MOD> Issue 1.19 [REVISITED - charset

Hugo Parra (HPARRA@novell.com)
Mon, 09 Nov 1998 17:16:22 -0700

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> Years of experience in protocol implementation have made me a firm =
believer in Murphy's=20
> Law. As a Printer implementor I want to avoid any risk of crashing the =
server at all costs.
> If a client sends me a malformed request, I don't trust that client and =
I don't want to have
> anything more to do with its request as soon as I have determined that =
it is bad. Hopefully
> this is a rare occurence anyway, so why try to optimize the quality of =
the response? In
> production systems, users should never get "client-error-bad-request" =
responses, anyway.
>
> -Carl

Is a message that specifies an operation that the server doesn't support a =
malformed request?

-Hugo

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