[cups.general] Does BroesePoll send PPD?

[John Morton]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:54, Anonymous wrote:
> Does BroesePoll send PPD from CUPS server to CUPS client?

No, it sends out a UDP packet with just state, uri, location, info and
make and model information:

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/idd.html#4_2

It really just says "This is me over here". If you look at the URLs of
printers that appear via the browsing mechanism, you'll see that they
point back to their server of origin - all the queuing and so forth
happens at that server, rather than the one you're seeing the printer
from.

To get the PPD of such a printer you need to append ".ppd" to the
printer URL - if you can see your printer's details on:

http://localhost:631/printers/SomePrinter

Then you can pull up the ppd with:

http://localhost:631/printers/SomePrinter.ppd

John