[cups.general] Several questions about browsing protocols

[Guillaume Rousse]

Michael Sweet a écrit :
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>> ...
>> Second, I've trouble figuring out the relationships between
>> BrowseProtocols, BrowseLocalProtocols and BrowseRemoteProtocols
>> settings. Is the first one used as default for the two others ? Or is it
>> the list of valid protocols usable by the two others ?
> 
> BrowseProtocols sets both the local and remote protocols. 
>  BrowseLocalProtocols and BrowseRemoveProtocols set the corresponding 
> ones only.
Which means BrowseLocalProtocols and BrowseRemoteProtocols are ignored 
if BrowseProtocols is set ?

> For the most part, the available protocols are the same. The only 
> difference is that dnssd (Bonjour) browsing is only available for 
> sharing local printers and thus should only be used with BrowseProtocols 
> or BrowseLocalProtocols. The rest of the protocols are supported for 
> both sharing and automatic discovery in cupsd.
Do you mean on linux exclusively, or in general ? In the later case, I 
don't understand what's the usefulness in advertising printers with a 
protocol no one can use to discover them...

BTW, what about the documentation patch, and the request for a warning 
when using unsupported protocols ?
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