[cups.bugs] [HIGH] STR #2006: "http://cupsserver:631 failed to open, retrying" for Windows clients

[John A. Murdie]

[STR New]

Using Windows XP SP2 (myself) or Windows 2003 Server SP1 (Luciano
Giacchetta) with the latest 'hot fixes' and CUPS 1.2.4 we can print jobs
from Windows via IPP (http://cupsserver:631/printers/foo) - but double
clicking on the Windows printer icon to bring up the small window listing
printer jobs, we see that the list is empty but instead shows at the top
the message:

"http://cupsserver:631 failed to open, retrying"

The problem does not occur with CUPS 1.1.23.

In debug mode with the failing version, Luciano saw only this:

D [22/Sep/2006:14:47:20 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 6 POST
/printers/ts-ti-19 HTTP/1.1
D [22/Sep/2006:14:47:20 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
provided.
D [22/Sep/2006:14:47:20 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes
http://cups/printers/ts-ti-19
D [22/Sep/2006:14:47:20 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0
(successful-ok)

I also see a report in a Linux Forums posting (dated 26 July 2006) from
someone else who appears to have something similar to this problem (his
"Plan B") -
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/66590-advanced-help-needed-cups-w-client-ipp-samba.html

(This submission is a formalisation of the thread "Windows clients of CUPS
- newbie question" that I started in cups.general - the clearest
exposition of the problem is my posting of 07:51 September 27. 
Luciano Giacchetta confirms that this problem exists in his posting to the
same thread of 17:35 September 27. I used his analysis above, as it's more
detailed than mine! Thanks, Luciano!)

John A. Murdie

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2006
Version: 1.2.4