[cups.general] [patch] IPP_PORT setting

[Michael Sweet]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 08:44 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would say we probably want to use ippSetPort(IPP_PORT) in the
>>IPP backend instead; that will get the behavior you desire without
>>impacting the filters. 
> 
> 
> Ok, updated patch attached then.

Can you post this patch to the STR form at:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

That way we can track it, it won't get lost, etc. :)

Thanks!

>> We could also look at updating httpSeparate()
>>to not use the ippPort() value, but that would have a much wider
>>scope so I'd want to do a full audit to see what programs are
>>using the port value from it...
> 
> 
> Hmm.  I think maybe a better long term solution would be to explicitly
> pass a URI (which would include the port) referring to the scheduler as
> an argument to the filters.  That would be a filter API/ABI change
> though.
 > ...

That's what the CUPS_SERVER and IPP_PORT environment variables are
for... :)  The side-effect for the IPP backend is fairly unique, I
think.

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