windows-ext

[Michael Sweet]

Marco wrote:
> If i configure a printer on WindowsXP with
> http://printserver:631/printers/queue
> 
> i get this error...
> 
> ------ error_log
> 
> D [15/Nov/2006:11:59:43 +0100] Request attributes follow...
> D [15/Nov/2006:11:59:43 +0100] attr "attributes-charset": group_tag = 1, value_tag = 47
> D [15/Nov/2006:11:59:43 +0100] attr "attributes-natural-language": group_tag = 1, value_tag = 48
> D [15/Nov/2006:11:59:43 +0100] End of attributes...
> D [15/Nov/2006:11:59:43 +0100] windows-ext client-error-bad-request: Missing required attributes!
> D [15/Nov/2006:11:59:43 +0100] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=400 (client-error-bad-request)
> D [15/Nov/2006:11:59:43 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST /printers/lpape1_2s HTTP/1.1
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> Windows System crash......

The Windows system should definitely not crash because of this.

windows-ext is the (undocumented) Microsoft IPP extension operation
registered with the IETF for printer driver download.  We've asked
Microsoft for documentation on this operation several times but never
gotten a response.  One day we may succeed in figuring out how this
operation works and implement it in CUPS...

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
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