[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #4205: CUPS-Get-Printers and auth-info-required

[Francois Dagorn]

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I'm experiencing problem with a cup 1.3.11 but I've seen some posts about
same 
problem with more recent versions. So what happens :

- involved : client using recent GTK as user interface (firefox, ...)
- GTK first asks for a list of available printers and then provide a menu
  to choose a relevant one

What cups does when a printer is allowed for some networks and auth basic
otherwise : cups sends an auth-info-required : username .. password
instead
of "none" when the request comes from a trusted network. So GTK prompts
for
a password.

GTK people says they are right since the server give a false information.
Of course people printing out of GTK are not affected I guess they are not
"CUPS-Get-Printers " to determine wether or not a password is needed, they

probably wait for an auth HTTP request ?

Any help would be appreciated, specially to walk on the cups sources, hard
to
find where this confounded "auth-info-required: username" is done ...

Cheers.

François Dagorn
Université de Rennes 1
France

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4205
Version: 1.3.11