IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP>MOD maximum lengths of some strings not explicitly stated in model
Re: IPP>MOD maximum lengths of some strings not explicitly stated in model
Robert Herriot (
Robert.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:43:26 -0800
> From masinter@parc.xerox.com Tue Nov 18 18:08:15 1997
>
> Robert Herriot wrote:
> >
> > The model document specifies the maximum lengths for text, name,
> > keywords and octet-string, but NOT for charset, natural-language,
> > mimeMediaType, uri and uri-scheme. Instead the model refers to other
> > documents which specify no upper bound.
> >
> > Although in practice, all of these types except uri are short, probably less
> > that 255 bytes, the question is what must all of the interoperable
> > implementations minimally support.
>
> Make it 100K bytes. That should hold them.
>
> Honestly, is there any reason to make the minimum any smaller? Given
> that the printers have to spool large documents, anyway?
>
> Larry
>
It just makes the code a bit more complex and adds yet another test
case that may never be tested until a customer tries it. Other
than that, it doesn't matter.