Regarding IPP headers

[p.mdriyaz at gmail.com]

Hi,
I would also like to know how the ipp headers are terminated.(what character/sequence of characters)?
Thank you,
-Riyaz

p.mdriyaz wrote:
> 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