How to restrict which printers are shared using IPP, CUPS v1.1.23

[Michael Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
> Michael, I setup the:
> 
> <Location  /printers/HPLaser>
> Order Deny, Allow
> Deny from all
> Allow from 127.0.0.1
> </Location>
> 
> After doing this I restarted the cupsd process and all remote
 > systems could not print to the printer, which is what I want.
 > However, I noticed by looking in the log files that the client was
 > still trying to transmit the print job to the server even though
 > the server replied with an error 403.  I am assuming this is a
 > client configuration issue.  That is the purpose of this post, I
 > could not find anything in your book and how to solve this issue.
 > So my question is, how can I configure the client such that when
 > they receive an error 403 they will not attempt to retransmit the
 > print job?

Right now, there is no way to prevent the retries...  You can file
a RFE at:

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

to request that we add checks for a 403 status and abort the job
accordingly.

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