Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementor's Guide
RFC 3196
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RFC - Informational
(November 2001; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 2639
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Network Working Group T. Hastings
Request for Comments: 3196 C. Manros
Obsoletes: 2639 P. Zehler
Category: Informational Xerox Corporation
C. Kugler
IBM Printing Systems Co
H. Holst
i-data Printing Systems
November 2001
Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementor's Guide
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document is one of a set of documents, which together describe
all aspects of a new Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).
Table of Contents
1 Introduction................................................... 4
1.1 Conformance language........................................ 5
1.2 Other terminology........................................... 6
1.3 Issues Raised from Interoperability Testing Events.......... 6
2 IPP Objects.................................................... 6
3 IPP Operations................................................. 7
3.1 Common Semantics............................................ 7
3.1.1 Summary of Operation Attributes............................ 8
3.1.2 Suggested Operation Processing Steps for IPP Objects....... 16
3.1.2.1 Suggested Operation Processing Steps for all Operations. 17
3.1.2.1.1 Validate version number............................... 18
3.1.2.1.2 Validate operation identifier......................... 20
3.1.2.1.3 Validate the request identifier....................... 20
3.1.2.1.4 Validate attribute group and attribute presence and
order................................................. 20
3.1.2.1.4.1 Validate the presence and order of attribute groups. 20
3.1.2.1.4.2 Ignore unknown attribute groups in the expected
position............................................ 21
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RFC 3196 Internet Printing Protocol/1.1 November 2001
3.1.2.1.4.3 Validate the presence of a single occurrence of
required Operation attributes....................... 21
3.1.2.1.5 Validate the values of the REQUIRED Operation
attributes............................................ 29
3.1.2.1.6 Validate the values of the OPTIONAL Operation
attributes............................................ 33
3.1.2.2 Suggested Additional Processing Steps for Operations
that Create/Validate Jobs and Add Documents............. 37
3.1.2.2.1 Default "ipp-attribute-fidelity" if not supplied...... 37
3.1.2.2.2 Check that the Printer object is accepting jobs....... 38
3.1.2.2.3 Validate the values of the Job Template attributes.... 38
3.1.2.3 Algorithm for job validation............................ 39
3.1.2.3.1 Check for conflicting Job Template attributes values.. 45
3.1.2.3.2 Decide whether to REJECT the request.................. 46
3.1.2.3.3 For the Validate-Job operation, RETURN one of the
success status codes.................................. 48
3.1.2.3.4 Create the Job object with attributes to support...... 48
3.1.2.3.5 Return one of the success status codes................ 50
3.1.2.3.6 Accept appended Document Content...................... 50
3.1.2.3.7 Scheduling and Starting to Process the Job............ 50
3.1.2.3.8 Completing the Job.................................... 50
3.1.2.3.9 Destroying the Job after completion................... 51
3.1.2.3.10 Interaction with "ipp-attribute-fidelity"............. 51
3.1.2.3.11 Character set code conversion support................. 51
3.1.2.3.12 What charset to return when an unsupported charset is
requested (Issue 1.19)?....... ....................... 52
3.1.2.3.13 Natural Language Override (NLO)....................... 53
3.1.3 Status codes returned by operation......................... 55
3.1.3.1 Printer Operations...................................... 55
3.1.3.1.1 Print-Job............................................. 55
3.1.3.1.2 Print-URI............................................. 58
3.1.3.1.3 Validate-Job.......................................... 58
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