IPP> Re: Implications of introducing new scheme and port

IPP> Re: Implications of introducing new scheme and port

Josh Cohen joshco at microsoft.com
Tue Jun 9 15:40:46 EDT 1998


so then would the advice that we give
to proxy admins to filter/allow IPP to 
watch for URLs on port XXX ?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore at cs.utk.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 12:28 PM
> To: Carl-Uno Manros
> Cc: Keith Moore; ipp at pwg.org; masinter at parc.xerox.com; 
> moore at cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: IPP> Re: Implications of introducing new scheme and port 
> 
> 
> I've been thinking about the interaction of an ipp: URL and 
> the installed base of proxies that support http: but will not
> understand ipp:
> 
> Whenever an IPP client is configured to use a proxy, it would probably
> make sense to have the client send 
> "POST http://foo.bar:XXX/zot HTTP/1.1" to the proxy when attempting
> to talk to the ipp object "ipp://foo.bar/zot".
> 
> As far as I can tell from a very casual analysis, this is the only
> place where it would be necessary to actually send the string "http:"
> to refer to a ipp object.  Every other URI that refers to a ipp object
> could use "ipp:" instead.
> 
> I don't see a problem with doing things this way, as long as it's
> clearly documented.  Perhaps it would be wise to add a section called
> something like "Tunneling of IPP requests over HTTP proxies" to the
> protocol document that specified such details.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> 



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