[cups.general] Older clients fail with 1.3.4 server

[Michael R Sweet]

grant basham wrote:
> I am having a number of problems with older cups clients from redhat
> enterprise linux v 3 that worked ok with a 1.2.11 cups server.
> 
> I am getting client-error-bad-request on CUPS-Get-Printers
> and CUPS-Get-Classes.  This is from cups 1.1.17 clients talking to a 1.3.4 server.  The clients worked on a 1.2.11 server with cupsd.conf identical to the 1.3.4 server.
> 
> The servers are 1.2.11 (on FedoraCore 7) and 1.3.4 (on Redhat Enterprise v 5).  Both are vanilla builds with the same /etc/cups/*.conf and ppd files.
> 
> Any assistance is appreciated.

I'd guess that the orientation-requested-default value might be
causing problems, but I haven't tested 1.1.17 in a very, very long
time (it *is* 5 years old now and has known security
vulnerabilities...)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer