This appears to be a reasonable approach to this problem.
I note carefully that there are still some nasty problems lurking
with proxies, etc., but nothing that would be serious for a skilled
person in dealing with nasty problems with proxies.
Patrick Powell
> From ipp-owner at pwg.org Wed Jul 15 19:01:11 1998
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:41:27 -0700
> To: Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>
> From: Robert Herriot <robert.herriot at Eng.Sun.COM>
> Subject: Re: IPP> Re: New IPP Scheme
> Cc: ipp at pwg.org>> --=====================_97913321==_.ALT
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>> Action item from Robert Herriot and Tom Hastings:
>> The IPP working group reached an agreement with Keith Moore in this
> morning's teleconference. This document is our best understanding of the
> details of this agreement.
>> Summary:
>> The quick summary is that IPP should support a new scheme 'ipp', which
> clients and servers use in IPP attributes. Such attributes are in a message
> body whose Content-Type is application/ipp. A client maps 'ipp' URLs to
> 'http' URLs, and then follows the HTTP/1.1 rules for constructing a
> Request-Line and HTTP headers. The IPP document will not prohibit
> implementations from supporting other schemes in IPP attributes, but such
> support is not defined by this document.