[cups.general] Q. Is https required for remote administration?

[wtautz]

Hello,

Is it true that Remote administration (via web interface) requires
https? Seems to
be the case. I'm using Ubuntu/Dapper and those folks have no ssl linked into
cupsd binary so I suspect this breaks remote administration?

I get the Upgrade 426 message  and it tells me I have to connect to
https:443. It's interesting
to note that this occurs even if I put in Port 443 in the cupsd.conf
file and cupsd is listening
to 443.

-----------------cupsd.conf file------------------------------------------
# Show general information in error_log.
LogLevel info
# Allow remote access
Port 631
Port 443
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
SystemGroup lpadmin
# Disable printer sharing and shared printers.
Browsing Off
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
  # Allow remote administration...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>
<Location /admin>
  # Allow remote administration...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Basic
  Require user @SYSTEM
  # Allow remote access to the configuration files...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>
<Policy default>
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job
Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription
Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job
Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Set-Printer-Attributes
Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job
Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer
Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job
Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Add-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Class
CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs CUPS-Set-Default>
    AuthType Basic
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel a job...
  <Limit Cancel-Job>
    Order deny,allow
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
  </Limit>
  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>