IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> Last Call Comment: Job and Printer time attributes shou

RE: IPP> Last Call Comment: Job and Printer time attributes shou

Hastings, Tom N (hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:27:33 -0700

The suggestion was that the date came in the "incoming" client supplied HTTP
header, not the server returned HTTP header. If the parenthetical comment
"(where it is always present)" is not correct, then we can just delete the
parenthetical comment.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: kugler@us.ibm.com [mailto:kugler@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 08:50
To: ipp@pwg.org
Subject: Re: IPP> Last Call Comment: Job and Printer time attributes
should be REQ

> However, we could write the requirement such that the IPP/1.1 Printer
> implementation had to attempt to get the time by some means, such as
getting
> the time from a networked NTP Time server, from an incoming HTTP request
> (where it is always present),

I don't think you can count on that. From draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06,
section 14.18 Date: "If the server does not have a clock that can provide a
reasonable approximation of the current time, its responses MUST NOT
include a Date header field.

- Carl