Documentation - hostname

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Mon Dec 15 07:15:19 PST 2008


Bruno Leijnse wrote:
> Hi,
> In your online documentation "Using Network Printers - CUPS 1.3.7", section "AppSocket Protocol", it is rather unclear what hostname you are requesting.
> For not an entire newbie, it may be crystal clear that you mean the printer. A less experienced person like myself might think that you are referring to some software server on the host computer.
> It might save some people a certain amount of time if you clarified this in the documentation.
> When you wrongly type in the hostname of your computer in your printer setup you get an error message which reads something like "host is busy". Not surprisingly, I guess, because it is addressing itself.
> The passage in the documentation is:
> 
> "AppSocket Protocol
> 
> The AppSocket protocol (sometimes also called the JetDirect protocol, owing to its origins with the HP JetDirect network interfaces) is the simplest, fastest, and generally the most reliable network protocol used for printers. AppSocket printing normally happens over port 9100 and uses the socket URI scheme:
> 
> socket://ip-address-or-hostname
> socket://ip-address-or-hostname?waiteof=false
> socket://ip-address-or-hostname:port-number
> socket://ip-address-or-hostname:port-number?waiteof=false
> 
> "
> 
> (and maybe others)
> 
> Thanks for paying attention.
> 
> Bruno

It should be clear without further notice that the *printer's*
ip-address-or-hostname is addressed.

Helge

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