IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> HTTP vs. HTTP-lite

Re: IPP> HTTP vs. HTTP-lite

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:56:37 PST

# I doubt there is a golden document somewhere that specifies how the
# browsers exactly deal with the all caches and all flavors of proxy
# servers around.

If a response includes
Cache-control: no-cache
then there should not be any difficulty with IPP and caching.
Print clients shouldn't need to say anything about caching, just print
servers, and the only thing servers need to say is about cache expiry
for information that shouldn't be cached.

It more likely a feature that static information returned from
querying a printer about its configuration can be cached.

Larry