cgi-bin: localhost

[pieterjandeboeck at yahoo.co.uk]

Sorry to but in but,

There's a cupsd printserver running on your local machine. Are you using your cupsd to listen to print activity on another another computer?

My way around this would be to substitute dynamically, aka,

if ("127.0.0.1")
then
    replace with "localhost"


(in pseudocode)

Pieter


somogyi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have the following problem:
>
> When CUPS is configured to listen only on a fixed address (with the "Listen x.x.x.x:631" parameter), then the CUPS web interface doesn't work.
> This occours because the CUPS web interface connects to ipp://localhost, but the CUPS service listens on x.x.x.x:631 (not localhost).
>
> Example code part of CUPS ("cgi-bin/printers.c"):
>   http = httpConnectEncrypt("localhost", ippPort(), cupsEncryption());
>
> (almost localhost everywhere in the cgi-bin source)
>
> Is it a bug, or a feature?
>