[cups.general] 1.6x IPP printer detection

[Kai Hendry]

On 13 March 2013 23:09, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> As for breaking things, if you are running an old CUPS without IPP/2.0 support (anything older than 1.4) then you'll need the changes coming in 1.6.2 to specify that the server only does IPP/1.1 ("ServerName host-or-ip/version=1.1").

Ok, now I'm trying to get a network printer (Ricoh Aficio SP3510DN)
working with a CUPS 1.5 client. How do I work out which version of IPP
this Ricoh printer is running? Its IP is 192.168.1.6. I can telnet to
its port 631. I did try lpstat and snmpwalk, and I didn't get results.
Perhaps I am not running them with the correct switches?

> I didn't think Avahi needed Python to work by itself; perhaps this is a distro packaging issue?  In any case, you can also install mDNSResponder (the "other" free software mDNS stack from Apple) which definitely does not have these dependencies.

Where can I find the sources for this? If there is a lightweight
version of what Avahi does, I'm interested in integrating it into
Webconverger. :-)

Thank you for your help,