IPP> Storing capabilities as single text string

IPP> Storing capabilities as single text string

McDonald, Ira imcdonald at sharplabs.com
Tue Jun 11 10:53:06 EDT 2002


Hi Ned,

Thanks for setting me straight.  For IPPFAX, we've planned to store the
capabilities in an array of strings (IPP strings are limited to 1023
octets, unless we define a new IPP longstring datatype).

Cheers,
- Ira McDonald

-----Original Message-----
From: ned.freed at mrochek.com [mailto:ned.freed at mrochek.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:03 PM
To: McDonald, Ira
Cc: 'ifx at pwg.org'; 'ipp at pwg.org'
Subject: Re: IPP> Storing capabilities as single text string


> Hi folks,

> Below is an excerpt from Ned Freed (IETF Applications Area Director)
> comments on ESMTP extensions for CONNEG from the IETF Internet FAX WG
> <draft-ietf-fax-esmtp-conneg-01.txt>:

> "...Although several examples of returned capabilities are shown, the
document
> isn't very specific about how capabilities have to be formatted. In
particular,
> I'd expect to see capabilities often stored as a single string without any
line
> breaks. Some advice on how to take such a string and format it for
inclusion in
> the reponse seems warranted."

> Note Ned's preference fill a flat string without newline characters.

Er, that wasn't my preference. I simply note that content capabilities
can and will be stored as a long string without any line breaks.

> Advice
> worth considering (although the IPP string length of 1024 would be
> problematic
> here...).

And since protocol limits may be incompatible with what's stored some
formatting may be necessary to return what's stored in a legitimate way.
The document needs to talk about how this is done or it is likely not to
be done correctly.

				Ned



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