IPP Mail Archive: IPP> Proposal for new IPP scheme

IPP> Proposal for new IPP scheme

don@lexmark.com
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:40:21 -0400

Bob Herriot said:

>Actually the default port never hits the wire either. Both the default
port
>and the ipp scheme-name are smoke and mirrors on the client which give the
>illusion of an ipp scheme.
>
>On the wire there is nothing but http with default port 80.

Oh, Bob, I disagree. The port does hit the wire one way or another. While
the protocol encoding does not contain the port being used, what precedes
the exchange of data does use a specific port (374 in Randy's and Larry's
example)

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