IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP>PRO

RE: IPP>PRO

Babak Jahromi (babakj@MICROSOFT.com)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:37:00 -0800

Apprently IIS's ISAPI filters let you define custom methods. Still
hanging on the client-side issue.

Babak

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Babak Jahromi
>Sent: Monday, February 24, 1997 5:41 PM
>To: 'rdebry@us.ibm.com'; 'ipp@pwg.org'
>Subject: RE: IPP>PRO
>
>
>How about clients? Would it be as easy to add support for an IPP-Post to
>a client?
>
>I will find out if Microsoft's IIS offers the same capability.
>
>Babak
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: rdebry@us.ibm.com [SMTP:rdebry@us.ibm.com]
>>Sent: Monday, February 24, 1997 2:49 PM
>>To: ipp@pwg.org
>>Subject: IPP>PRO
>>
>>I talked today with one of the IBM web server developers about
>>the use of http post method vs. new http methods for ipp. His view
>>was that there would not be a significant performance or load
>>difference for these two alternatives. He thought that defining a
>>new protocol was the worst choice.
>>
>>He also told me that in IBM web servers, new method handlers
>>could be written by anyone and bound into the server later, so
>>defining new methods on IBM servers doesn't require the server
>>code itself to be changed.