IPP> Duplicate ippget events

IPP> Duplicate ippget events

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Jul 27 19:57:09 EDT 2001


"Hastings, Tom N" wrote:
> ...
> However, remember this problem is only for using Get-Notifications
> in Event No Wait mode (polling).  For Event Wait mode, there aren't
> any duplicate events returned to a Notification Recipient.  If we
> think that the majority of use will be with Event Wait Mode, then we
> don't need to solve the problem for Event No Wait Mode.

Even with the multipart encoding, I think there will still be a
significant number of implementations that don't implement the
event wait mode, and if we don't provide a way for clients to
specify what they've already seen then the efficiency of ippget
in this mode will be quite poor.

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