Can CUPS filter driver get the IP info in shared printer environment

[Michael Sweet]

keens312 wrote:
>> keens312 wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> A USB printer connected to a CUPS system and shared over network.
>>>
>>> I want to know if the CUPS system perceive the address of the computer who initiated the printing?
>>>
>>> The /var/log/cups/error_log cannot log who did the printing, so that's hard to do the admin and accouting works.
>> The job-originating-host-name attribute (which is logged in the
>> page_log file) specifies the source host of the job.
>>
> Yes, I can see the info in page_log file.
> Is there any cups api that I can use to get the job-originating-host-name in my filter driver?

You'll find it as one of the options in argv[5] (for CUPS 1.3/Leopard
anyways...)

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