[cups.general] Bad Request error with CUPS because cookie

[Michael Sweet]

Jan Schierig wrote:
> Hi Members,
> 
> i got some problems with Cups and its cookie handling.
> 
> We use CUPS as printing service on Debian Sarge machines. Now we have some
> problems with cookies set by sites of our intranet services. Because of
> planed single sign on some sites are setting cookies for Domain: ".xyz.com"
> 
> Our CUPS-Servername is in form of host.subdomain.xyz.com . If I want to use
> the IPP-connected Printers and the cookie is set i get a bad request message
> back from CUPS. This is maybe because of the cookie for domain ".xyz.com"
> (and CUPS-Server is in this domain) which is unknown to CUPS.
> 
> Are there any possibilities to tell CUPS to ignore cookies included in
> http-/ipp-requests.
> 
> I would be glad if someone could give me some hints, because several hundred
> of users are affected by the problem. We now solve this temporarily by
> deleting the cookies from MS IE .

It is not because of the domain in the cookie, it is because the
length of the cookie data exceeds the internal buffer length - 1k in
CUPS 1.1.x, 32k in CUPS 1.2.

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Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com