IPP Mail Archive: IPP> Re: Re IPP NOT - 9 issues in the IPPG

IPP> Re: Re IPP NOT - 9 issues in the IPPGET spec.htm

From: Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 17:02:47 EDT

  • Next message: Carl Kugler: "IPP> Re: Re IPP NOT - 9 issues in the IPPGET spec.htm"

    Carl Kugler wrote:
    >
    > IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> NOT - 9 issues in the IPPGET specMS> I think
    > event-wait-mode should be OPTIONAL but RECOMMENDED. There
    > will always be client and server implementations that can't do the
    > multipart encoding, or can't spare the extra socket resources.
    >
    > Even when event-wait-mode is false, I think multipart encoding would be very
    > desirable, otherwise you can only send a single notification per operation,
    > even if several are waiting to be delivered. This is a lot of overhead,
    > especially if persistent connections aren't used.

    But (unless I read it wrong), the current spec allows the printer
    to send multiple event notification groups in a single response,
    so you can get all your events even without multipart encoding
    (for the no wait mode, anyways) 

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