non-standard IPP-Port

[Michael Sweet]

Elmar wrote:
>> Elmar wrote:
>>> The printer is connected to a USR-Router via USB and the URI is:
>>> http://<IP-Adress>:1631/printers/my_printer
>>> Yes, it is port 1631! It's fix value by USR.
>>> Until 1.1.xx everything was ok, but since 1.2. it isn't possible to let cups take the non-standard value 1631.
>>> What can I do?
>> USR's IPP implementation is broken.  Report the problem to USR.
>>
> And this problem apply only cups machines?
> From other non-cups network machines (XP, Vista) it's possible to print to this URI. Then I downgrade cups to 1.1. and everything is fine.

Windows only suppports IPP/1.0 (poorly).

CUPS 1.1.x did not send the Expect: header, and thus was vulnerable
to a variety of man-in-the-middle and disclosure issues.  CUPS 1.2
and higher first tries with Expect: and then without, but USR's IPP
implementation blows up.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com