IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Implications of introducing new scheme and port f

Re: IPP> Implications of introducing new scheme and port f

PETER_E_MELLQUIST@hp-roseville-om3.om.hp.com
Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:53:53 -0700

Regarding item #2,

Use of alternative HTTP ports, other than port 80, effects the ability
to move through proxies and firewalls. Using alternative port #'s will
require reconfiguration of security infrastructure in order to allow
for HTTP connections.

HP has gone through similar work in the definition and standardization
of HTTP port 280 for Web Based Management Purposes ( see IANA port
list ). Currently port 280 is IANA approved for usage of HTTP for
network management. This works fine for Intranet usage, but issues as
described above result when operating in a secure environments.

The other issue is that of configuring HTTP servers and proxies to
listen on alternative port #s. While easy to do programatically, not
all commercial HTTP servers allow listening on multiple ports
concurrently.

Considering these two issues, partitioning of the URI space for IPP on
HTTP port 80 or HTTP-S (HTTP/(SSL |TLS)) on port 443 makes better
sense.

Peter

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Subject: IPP> Implications of introducing new scheme and port for e
Author: Non-HP-manros (manros@cp10.es.xerox.com) at HP-Roseville,mimegw4
Date: 6/1/98 10:20 AM

Hi,

As most of you know already, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) WG has
suggested using HTTP as "transport", with the payload in the form of a MIME
object passed with the POST method.

As part of the onging IESG review process, the Application Area Director
Keith Moore has suggested to distinguish IPP traffic from "normal" HTTP
traffic by:

1) the introduction of a new scheme called "ipp"
2) the introduction a new default port number for IPP servers.

Before the IPP WG responds to those suggestions, the IPP WG would like to
get some advice from the HTTP WG on the implications of such a change.
In particular, we want some feedback on how easy or difficult it would be
to configure existing web servers to accomodate the suggested changes.

Please note that many printer vendors are not in the business of developing
web servers or HTTP servers and are dependent on getting those compoments
from other vendors.

Please respond back to the IPP DL at:

ipp@pwg.org

Thanks,

Carl-Uno Manros
Chair of the IETF IPP WG