[cups.bugs] HTML interface for printers gives URL with loopback(127.0.0.1)

[Michael R Sweet]

This is CUPS STR #3022 and is fixed for the upcoming 1.3.10 release...

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3022

On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Julian Bridle wrote:
> I have recently built version 1.3.9 on a test server, replacing  
> version 1.3.8 which I currently use in production.  The behaviour in  
> the HTML interface seems to have changed and overrides the hostname  
> in the URLs for the printer option buttons to contain the localhost  
> IP address. e.g. http://127.0.0.1/printers/brother
>
> This might go unnoticed on an installation where the browser is run  
> on the print server, but my server does not have a graphics card or  
> screen so all the admin is done via the HTML interface from a PC,  
> where it understandably results in a connection refused as the  
> browser get directed at the local host, rather than the print server.
>
> I access the admin pages by the following URL - http://icarus:631  
> where icarus is resolved by my local DNS to a private IP address.   
> All pages in the web interface seem to be rendered correctly (e.g. http://icarus:631/admin 
>  and even http://icarus:631/printers) until you select the  
> 'Printers' tab, where all hyperlinks get changed to contain the  
> loopback IP address.  E.g. http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/brother.   
> The equivalent page under the previous 1.3.8 release on the same  
> server and on the production server leaves the correct hostname in  
> the URL.
>
> I have compared the cupsd.conf with the production one and the  
> contents are the same, except that in the location section, the two  
> servers allow one another.
>
> My servers are both Sun Sparc servers (different models) running  
> Solaris 10, and I am accessing the HTML pages using Firefox 3.0.8  
> from a Windows Terminal Server running MS Windows 2003 SP1, but I  
> have had the same results with IE 7.0.5730.11
>
> I have not been abe to find any reference to this issue in the bugs  
> or general forums, or in the bug list so I reluctantly think it may  
> be a new bug.
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer