[cups.general] When printing a Test Page from cups 1.1.X server to 1.2.1 server I keep getting "guest" as user identification (extra note)

[wtautz]

wtautz wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Specifically the client poll's the 1.2.1 server (compiled from source on
>www.cups.org) and the
>client is Ubuntu/Breezy (version 1.1.23-10ubuntu4). It seem that the url
>on the client
>that indicates print test page points to http:{1.2.1-server}:631 (i.e,
>it is not https even though
>that's available on the server). Is this expected behaviour? Can I force
>the http://servername
>connection to be https? (I had assumed that it was already since I
>compiled openssl into it) but
>sniffit shows it  isn't which is to be expected since it's http, but....
>  
>
I should have augmented this by saying that if I connect to
the remote printer from the client http://localhost:631 that the
user is "guest" whereas if I connect via https to print the
test page the user is not "guest" but me as it should be.
Is this to be expected?

walter