Regarding IPP headers

[p.mdriyaz at gmail.com]

Hi,

We have a set up network printing here , with the quota mangement is being done by pykota. Cups registers the print job with the user name with which  the person has logged in, hence there is a problem when many people use the same user name.

So we thought we could write a small prog that would run on the users computer and listen at some port x. In cups config we say browse port x.
The prog listening at port x gets the application level (ipp) data and searches for the Username and replaces it with the unique id and sends it to some port on the server say 'y'.

The program listening at y forwards the data to port 631 on the server.

I would like to know if this would work? and if yes is there any thing specific that needs to be done.

Thank you,
-Riyaz