You're right, I forgot about that.  For no-wait-mode you don't need
multipart.  But it is critical for wait-mode if we are going to send
complete application/ipp responses for each part, since the version,
status, and request-id are positional fields.
     -Carl
                                                                                                                           
                    Michael Sweet                                                                                          
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                    com>                 cc:     ipp@pwg.org                                                               
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                    mike@easysw.c                                                                                          
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                    07/31/2001                                                                                             
                    03:02 PM                                                                                               
                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                           
Carl Kugler wrote:
>
> IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> NOT - 9 issues in the IPPGET specMS> I think
> event-wait-mode should be OPTIONAL but RECOMMENDED. There
>     will always be client and server implementations that can't do the
>     multipart encoding, or can't spare the extra socket resources.
>
> Even when event-wait-mode is false, I think multipart encoding would be
very
> desirable, otherwise you can only send a single notification per
operation,
> even if several are waiting to be delivered.  This is a lot of overhead,
> especially if persistent connections aren't used.
But (unless I read it wrong), the current spec allows the printer
to send multiple event notification groups in a single response,
so you can get all your events even without multipart encoding
(for the no wait mode, anyways)
-- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike@easysw.com Printing Software for UNIX http://www.easysw.com
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