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

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Jun 16 10:52:27 PDT 2006


wtautz wrote:
> 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?

The browser cached your credentials...

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