HELP: Configure CUPS server to use a proxy server

[Anonymous]

I found this message from 2004 experiencing the (nearly)
issue I'm trying to solve (albeit I need to solve this
on a MacOS X 10.4 box).

I need to use http based IPP printing through a proxy
under MacOS X 10.4. Has anyone successfully printed
through a proxy via CUPS??

Thanks.

-- John



> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know how to configure CUPS to use a proxy server
> to connect to another CUPS server? Here is my problem...
> I have a CUPS print server on a RedHat 9.0 box at home and
> I want to print to it from my RedHat 9.0 box at
> work. The problem that I have is the CUPS daemon
> tries to connect directly to my IP address at home instead
> of routing through the proxy server at work. I can see
> this using a netstat -an | grep 631. I have set my
> http_proxy environment variable to proxy.mycompany.com:8000
> and that did not help. I have set the proxies using
> /usr/bin/gnome-network-preferences as root and that
> did not help. I have even defined the http_proxy variable
> in the /etc/init.d/cups startup script. I am able to print
> to the home CUPS server using my Windows machine at work
> without a problem so I do know that the proxies do allow it.
> I have been unable to find anything about configuring proxies
> in the documentation but I did find some references to proxies
> in the status messages. Would anyone have a solution
> to this or be able to point me in the right direction to solve this
> problem?
>
> Bruce Dudek
> brucedudek at yahoo.com