IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Identifying jobs in requests

Re: IPP> Identifying jobs in requests

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:17:17 PDT

> also using URLs to imply the job id means that we are tied to a specific
> transport - something we tried to avoid. If we were to use , say, raw IP
> then you would need to assign an IP port to each job or something like
> that.

I thought it was the other way around: using URLs allows the protocol
used for cancel job to be different than the protocol used for creating
the job, because the URL scheme itself identifies the protocol.

Larry