cgi-bin: localhost

[Michael Sweet]

somogyi at de.ibm.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have the following problem:
> 
> When CUPS is configured to listen only on a fixed address (with the "Listen x.x.x.x:631" parameter), then the CUPS web interface doesn't work.
> This occours because the CUPS web interface connects to ipp://localhost, but the CUPS service listens on x.x.x.x:631 (not localhost).
> 
> Example code part of CUPS ("cgi-bin/printers.c"):
>   http = httpConnectEncrypt("localhost", ippPort(), cupsEncryption());
> 
> (almost localhost everywhere in the cgi-bin source)
> 
> Is it a bug, or a feature?

It is as designed; you MUST listen on the local loopback interface
for the authentication information that is passed to the CGIs to
work.  We will not be changing this.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com