httpd and cups

[Michael Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
> Does cups web server run without httpd running? On my computer, there
> is no httpd process. Then, my question is, which process is
> equivalent to httpd when using http://localhost:631?

cupsd actually provides a basic HTTP (web) service, which is required
to support IPP (IPP is layered on HTTP) and the web UI.

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