[cups.general] When printing a Test Page from cups 1.1.X serverto1.2.1 server I keep getting "guest" as user identification (extranote)

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>> 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...
>>
> Hi,
> 
> Hmm. I tried the shift key and reloaded, shows up as guest user. Command
> line tools work fine.  Cleared my cache and restarted browser. Still get
> guest user when printing
> Test Page via both https and http. Printing an arbitrary webpage works
> as me. So I guess
> there is no real problem but it is curious. Btw, I'm using firefox on
> Ubuntu/breezy.

Right, when you cleared your cache or did the shift-reload thing, you
got guest (not authenticated), as expected...

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