This has nothing to do with the IPP protocol - these are suggestions as to
what the users experience should be. There are a million and one web links
that when you click on them do things on the client side. I suspect that a
lot of OS vendors are going to do exactly what you describe. A printer URL
will be HTTP://xxxx/printerA (or whatever). This bears no relationship
whatsoever to the URL used by IPP for pumping print over the network - I
doubt that a user will ever see that URL (in a lot of cases it wont be
http://www.acme.com/myprinter (or IPP: or HTTP:....:370). It will be
something like http://www.acme.com/scripts/IPP/submit.pl?pr=myprinter or
some equally memorable string.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Moore [SMTP:moore@cs.utk.edu]
> Sent: Friday, July 03, 1998 7:00 PM
> To: Randy Turner
> Cc: Keith Moore; Tom Hastings; ipp@pwg.org; moore@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Re: IPP> clarification needed re: "ipp:" proposal
>
> > however just FYI, I believe either "ipp" or "http" schemes
> > MAY be included, but this is dependent upon the means used to determine
> the
> > URL in the first place. The administrator of such a service would
> publish
> > which ever URL was appropriate for how his/her server is configured.
>
> I don't understand. If you want to advertise a printer, you should use
> ipp:
> If you want to advertise a web server, you should use http:
>
> Seems like the two should have very different user interfaces, which is
> one of the reasons for exposing the ipp/http difference in the URL.
>
> For instance, if I click on an http link, I expect my browser or OS
> to display that file in a window or offer to save it locally.
>
> If I click on an ipp link, my browser or OS should pop up
> a window offering to print something to that printer, display
> the pending jobs in the queue, install a driver for that printer,
> tell me where the printer is and how much it costs to use it, etc.
> Or maybe I can drag some other object and drop it on the
> printer link, which causes it to be printed. etc.
> Or I drag the printer link to my desktop, which causes an interface
> to that printer to be installed on my system. Whatever. The
> point is that just by looking at an ipp: URL, a browser or OS or
> a human being can tell that it's a printer, and make use of that
> information without actually having to talk to the thing.
>
> Keith