RE: IPP> Implementation question re.: chunking

Paul Moore <paulmo@microsoft.com> Fri, 24 July 1998 17:32 UTC

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From: Paul Moore <paulmo@microsoft.com>
To: 'Randy Turner' <rturner@sharplabs.com>, Carl Kugler <kugler@us.ibm.com>
Cc: ipp@pwg.org
Subject: RE: IPP> Implementation question re.: chunking
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:24:54 -0700
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You might find that some implementations dont support chunking.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Randy Turner [SMTP:rturner@sharplabs.com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 24, 1998 10:05 AM
> To:	Carl Kugler
> Cc:	ipp@pwg.org
> Subject:	Re: IPP> Implementation question re.:  chunking
> 
> At 04:51 PM 7/24/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >draft-ietf-ipp-protocol-06.txt says the client and server MUST support
> the
> "chunked" transfer encoding when receiving.  My question is:  Can we count
> on this?  I.e., if our client always transmits requests using the
> "chunked"
> transfer encoding, will we be able to interoperate with the vast majority
> of IPP server implementations?
> >
> >    -Carl
> 
> 
> There are no vast majority of IPP server implementations (yet). I think
> the
> only worry is if someone plans to deploy IPP behind a generic web server
> that doesn't support chunking. However, Apache and most other of the more
> popular HTTP/1.1 servers will support this. It should definitely be a
> bullet item (checkoff item) at the upcoming bake-off, however.
> 
> Randy
> 
> >