Raw printing via IPP

[Anonymous]

Thank you Johannes, that works perfectly.

Don't know why '-' didn't work, but this solves the problem.

Paul
>
> Hello,
>
> On Jan 24 06:04 paulthompson at orange.net wrote (shortened):
> > If I change the '-' in mime.convs to another filter I can see that program
> > being executed in the error_log (it of course fails as the format doesn't
> > match) so it is correctly assessing the input coming over the internet as
> > octet-stream and trying to convert it into raw. Basically, it seems that CUPS
> > is failing to recognise the '-' as the special pass-thru filter.
>
> I don't know why this happens but shouldn't it work when you
> simply replace the '-' in mime.convs by a wrapper for 'cat'?
>
> Note that any filter must be capable of reading from a filename
> on the command-line (as the optional argv[6]) or from stdin.
> Example:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> #! /bin/bash
> # have the input at fd0 (stdin) in any case
> [ -n "$6" ] && exec <"$6"
> # forward the data
> cat -
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> For details see for example
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/06/jsmeix_print-cups-filters.html
>
> Of course you may win a "useless use of cat award"
> but who cares when a quick hack is o.k. for you ;-)
>
> Note that after enabling the application/octet-stream fallbacks
> any user can print (accidentally) any binary nonsense which
> is sent directly to the ptinter which may lead to tons of sheets
> printed with meaningless characters.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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