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

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> ...
> So it looks like gnutls is being used. I guess to get around the
> licensing issue
> the Debian doesn't like . So encryption is being used.
> ...
> I get the problem if I start with http://servername:443 I can't even
> connect.
> On the server I see a CLOSE_WAIT if I use lsof -i. This may be a local
> issue.

First, make sure you have an /etc/cups/ssl directory; the GNU TLS
support includes automatic server certificate generation, so the
first connect will be a little slow.  You can look in the error_log
file for any encryption errors that show up...

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