[Cloud] Document access

[Cloud] Document access

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 06:42:08 UTC 2013


Hi Mike,

Ah - thanks much for the clarification.

Cheers,
- Ira


Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG IPP WG
Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG
Chair - TCG Embedded Systems Hardcopy SG
IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:

> Ira,
>
> No, it is an alternative if the (primary) FTP link fails.  You can't post
> to the HTTP link, but you can download/view using the HTTP link.
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2013, at 11:08 PM, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> So is this a new PWG standard  practice decision?
>
> Only post all new documents w/ HTTP links?   Because someone
> has a browser so defective that it can't access FTP links?
>
> Sorry, up all night on calls to TCG meeting sessions in Osaka, Japan,
> so I'm a bit frustrated by this thread.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
>
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
> Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
> Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG IPP WG
> Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG
> Chair - TCG Embedded Systems Hardcopy SG
> IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
> Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
> http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
> http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
> mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com
> Winter  579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176  734-944-0094
> Summer  PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839  906-494-2434
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> Ira,
>>
>> You can now use ftp: or http: to reference files on the FTP server, e.g.:
>>
>>     ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippsix10-20130923.pdf
>>     http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippsix10-20130923.pdf
>>
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Out of curiosity, since there were a lot of topics in Randy's note,
>> *what* is
>> now done?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Ira
>>
>>
>> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
>> Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
>> Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
>> Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG IPP WG
>> Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG
>> Chair - TCG Embedded Systems Hardcopy SG
>> IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
>> Blue Roof Music/High North Inc
>> http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
>> http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
>> mailto:blueroofmusic at gmail.com
>> Winter  579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176  734-944-0094
>> Summer  PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839  906-494-2434
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is now done.
>>>
>>> On Oct 21, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Randy Turner <rturner at amalfisystems.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Ok, thanks.
>>> >
>>> > This happened again this evening when I tried to access the links that
>>> Joe Murdock published earlier today…I was using a laptop that was failing
>>> the FTP links.
>>> >
>>> > If we could just substitute http for ftp when publishing links then
>>> this would be great…
>>> >
>>> > R.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Oct 21, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Randy,
>>> >>
>>> >> On Oct 21, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Randy Turner <rturner at amalfisystems.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi Guys,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I would like to request that hyperlinks to documents (minutes,
>>> documents, whatever) be  "http:" links instead of "ftp:" links -- on a
>>> number of occasions, I and some of my colleagues have been in situations
>>> where we are using a browser that has issues with issuing "ftp:" requests.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Whereas using "http:" requests would be more "universal" with
>>> regards to be able to access documents in any browser context (even at an
>>> internet cafe where we might not have configuration capability with the
>>> browser).
>>> >>
>>> >> We already have (currently undocumented) aliases on the main pwg.orgweb site to the standards directories.  It would be trivial to support "
>>> http://ftp.pwg.org/.. <http://ftp.pwg.org/>." aliases for all "
>>> ftp://ftp.pwg.org/.. <ftp://ftp.pwg.org/>." links.
>>> >>
>>> >>> Also, on another topic, after navigating the PWG website, I can't
>>> find any way to subscribe to the "PWG announce" mailing list.  I already
>>> subscribe -- I'm making this comment because one of my colleagues was
>>> trying to subscribe and couldn't find a "subscribe" link for "PWG-announce".
>>> >>
>>> >> Anyone that is subscribed to the WG mailing lists automatically
>>> should be subscribed to the pwg-announce list, but you can subscribe to
>>> just the pwg-announce list at:
>>> >>
>>> >>   https://www.pwg.org/mailman/listinfo/pwg-announce
>>> >>
>>> >> _________________________________________________________
>>> >> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
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>>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>
>  _________________________________________________________
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