[cups.general] a milter like facility for cups accounting?

[Michael Sweet]

wtautz wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there going to be a 'milter' like facility for cups accounting, i.e.,
> the ability to insert commands that are accounting related during the
> ipp transaction, for example, immediately after the data portion of an
> ipp print job has been submitted.

Eventually, yes, but not before CUPS 1.5 (tentatively scheduled for
release in December 2007).

Basically, we are going to add support for dynamically-linked server
plug-ins which will allow you to implement arbitrary IPP policies,
accounting, etc. on your server.

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