Well said!
> Re: RE: IPP> MOD> Issue 1.19 [REVISITED - charset
>>debecker at lexmark.com> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:52:59 -0500
>> >Is a message that specifies an operation that the server doesn't support a
> malformed request?
>> Not necessarily - but it could be. Either way, at the point where we encounter
> the unsupported operation number, we've already determined that we can't handle
> the request. We should therefore immediately stop processing the request and
> respond with an 0x501 status code. At this point, worrying about charsets is
> not useful, and building logic into the printer to do so is a needless expense.
> We don't know why the operation number is invalid - it *could* be a well-formed
> request for something we don't support, or it could be garbage. We don't know,
> and we shouldn't concern ourselves with it. What we do know is that we received
> a request for an operation we don't support, and that's what we should tell the
> client - period. There's no need for the printer to supply a status message
> here; the status code is adequately informative, and the client is perfectly
> capable of informing the user of the error. Trying to parse a data stream that
> we already know we can't do anything useful with is a waste of time at best, and
> dangerous at worst.
>> Phil DeBecker
> Lexmark International
>debecker at lexmark.com>http://www.pwg.org/hypermail/ipp/1634.html
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