IPP> Minutes of IPP Weekly Conference call - Nove. 12, 1997

IPP> Minutes of IPP Weekly Conference call - Nove. 12, 1997

Jay Martin jkm at underscore.com
Thu Nov 13 11:22:49 EST 1997


I entirely agree with Scott.  Supporting a service for which no
real support is provided doesn't jive with traditional approaches
(ie, just don't answer the call if you're not supposed to talk).


Was there some underlying goal/idea not stated in the minutes
for which this approach is necessary?


	...jay


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Scott Lawrence wrote:
> 
>   The agreement Roger describes sounds good; one minor nit...
> 
> RKD> 9) If a client somehow derives a URI and tries to connect and the
> RKD>    service (e.g. Printer-URI) has been turned-off, an appropriate
> RKD>    http error code will be returned.
> 
>   Why impose that requirement?  That would mean that a printer without
>   security (for whatever reason) would need to listen on the TLS port
>   and implement enough of the handshake to negotiate no security so
>   that it can send an HTTP error.  Similarly, a secure-only server
>   would need to listen on the unsecured port just to send an HTTP
>   error.  Just let TCP do the right thing - if they've constructed an
>   invalid URI (one with the wrong scheme or port number in it), then
>   it won't work, which is what should happen.  It really isn't the
>   business of the IPP spec to say what will happen on a TCP port on
>   which IPP is not available.
> 
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> Scott Lawrence           EmWeb Embedded Server       <lawrence at agranat.com>
> Agranat Systems, Inc.        Engineering            http://www.agranat.com/



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