[cups.development] Correct way for a backend to connect to localCUPS server ?

[Michael Sweet]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'd like to know what is the (or is there a) correct way for a 
> backend to connect to the local CUPS server to do some IPP requests, 
> in particular if CUPS is configured to only accept authenticated 
> requests. When anonymous accesses are allowed there's no problem
> it works fine.
> 
> If an username and password are expected by CUPS, I could tell my 
> backend to always connect as the same user on http://localhost:631, 
> and store this user's password in the clear somewhere, but this 
> sucks as far as security is concerned. 
> 
> I've just downloaded the latest CUPS' 1.2.x from svn and briefly
> looked at the different backends' source, especially snmp.c and
> ipp.c, but both seem to connect only to remote printers, not
> to the CUPS server on localhost.
> 
> Is this possible at all ?

Sure, just connect using cupsServer(), ippPort(), and
cupsEncryption().

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