[cups.general] Can the host field in a lpr control file be madetocontain client hostname for browsed printers?

[wtautz]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> wtautz wrote:
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>> Michael Sweet wrote:
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>>> wtautz wrote:
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>>>> Question: Is there a way to make the H field have the client hostname
>>>> even for browsed printers?
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>>> No, sorry.
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>> Just out of curiosity could you tell me what part of the source code
>> is responsible for generating the H field in lpr control files?
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> The lpd_queue() function does this; you *might* be able to update the
> backend to get the job-originating-host-name attribute and use that
> instead of the local hostname...
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>   

How would I extract the value job-originating-host-name? It
appears I need ippFindAttribute which seems to require
some special inputs... job->attrs ? The return type of ippFindAttribute
is rather convoluted...at least upon first examination... a few extra hints
would be appreciated...I've managed to put in some debug code into
lpd.c. the function snprintf seems to be responsible for constructing
the header. So if I could replace the localhost value there with the
job-originating-host-name
I think I might be in business.

walter