IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> NOT - Suggested resolutions to the 27 Issues [HTTP notification

Re: IPP> NOT - Suggested resolutions to the 27 Issues [HTTP notification

Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:39:32 -0400

"Hastings, Tom N" wrote:
>
> In our IPP telecon today, we did recognize that there are two
> possible HTTP notification delivery methods, not just one:
> ...
> With either method, we need to define which end can close the
> connect and what happens when the connection is closed in order to
> send more notifications. For example, the URL in the
> ...

If we use "Content-Type: multipart/xyz" and then send the individual
updates over the same request we'll probably have better success with
existing HTTP products, and for #1 it is probably the only valid way
to send multiple responses to the client.

For the "active" HTTP POST notification either the normal keep-alive
functionality or a multi-part encoding will work. Also, the IPP
server SHOULD try to retry a lost connection as needed, but should
also have the option of cancelling the subscription if the server is
unable to detect fault conditions that would degrade the server's
performance.

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