[cups.general] Binary data pass through

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello Till,

On Jan 6 10:15 Till Kamppeter wrote (shortened):
> It uncomments the lines starting with "application/octet-stream"
> in the end of /etc/cups/mime.types and /etc/cups/mime.convs
....
> In Mandriva Linux this configuration is default.

I wonder why you have it enabled by default.

It results that any binary nonsense data (e.g. Linux binaries
or *.doc files from Windows) would be sent automatically
to the printer.

If it is a normal printer which can print plain ASCII text
(e.g. a PCL or PostScript printer), the printer would normally
fall back to ASCII printing mode and print tons of sheets
with meaningless characters.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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