The length of a textWithLanguage value MUST be 4
                      + the value of field a + the value of field c.

nameWithLanguage     OCTET_STRING consisting of 4 fields:
                       a) a SIGNED-SHORT which is the number of octets
                          in the following field
                       b) a value of type natural-language,
                       c) a SIGNED-SHORT which is the number of octets
                          in the following field
                       d) a value of type nameWithoutLanguage.

                      The length of a nameWithLanguage value MUST be 4
                      + the value of field a + the value of field c.

charset,             US-ASCII-STRING.
naturalLanguage,
mimeMediaType,
keyword, uri, and
uriScheme

boolean              SIGNED-BYTE  where 0x00 is 'false' and 0x01 is
                      'true'.

Syntax of Attribute  Encoding
Value


integer and enum     a SIGNED-INTEGER.

dateTime             OCTET-STRING consisting of eleven octets whose
                      contents are defined by "DateAndTime" in RFC
                      2579 [RFC2579].

resolution           OCTET_STRING consisting of nine octets of  2
                      SIGNED-INTEGERs followed by a SIGNED-BYTE. The
                      first SIGNED-INTEGER contains the value of cross
                      feed direction resolution. The second SIGNED-
                      INTEGER contains the value of feed direction
                      resolution. The SIGNED-BYTE contains the units
                      value.

rangeOfInteger       Eight octets consisting of 2 SIGNED-INTEGERs.
                      The first SIGNED-INTEGER contains the lower
                      bound and the second SIGNED-INTEGER contains the
                      upper  bound.







 
RFC 2565            IPP/1.0: Encoding and Transport           April 1999


1setOf  X            Encoding according to the rules for an attribute
                      with more than 1 value.  Each value X is encoded
                      according to the rules for encoding its type.

octetString          OCTET-STRING

   The type of the value in the model document determines the encoding
   in the value and the value of the value-tag.

3.12 Data

   The data part MUST include any data required by the operation

4. Encoding of Transport Layer

   HTTP/1.1 [RFC2068] is the transport layer for this protocol.

   The operation layer has been designed with the assumption that the
   transport layer contains the following information:

      - the URI of the target job or printer operation
      - the total length of the data in the operation layer, either as a
        single length or as a sequence of chunks each with a length.

   It is REQUIRED that a printer implementation support HTTP over the
   IANA assigned Well Known Port 631 (the IPP default port), though a
   printer implementation may support HTTP over some other port as well.
   In addition, a printer may have to support another port for privacy
   (See Section 5 "Security Considerations").

   Note: even though port 631 is the IPP default, port 80 remains the
   default for an HTTP URI.  Thus a URI for a printer using port 631
   MUST contain an explicit port, e.g. "http://forest:631/pinetree".  An
   HTTP URI for IPP with no explicit port implicitly reference port 80,
   which is consistent with the rules for HTTP/1.1. Each HTTP operation
   MUST use the POST method where the request-URI is the object target
   of the operation, and where the "Content-Type" of the message-body in
   each request and response MUST be "application/ipp". The message-body
   MUST contain the operation layer and MUST have the syntax described
   in section 3.2 "Syntax of Encoding". A client implementation MUST
   adhere to the rules for a client described for HTTP1.1 [RFC2068]. A
   printer (server) implementation MUST adhere the rules for an origin