[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#423943: cups: Why does CUPS not know that http://127.0.0.1:631 == http://localhost:631 ?

[s. keeling]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-10sarge1
Severity: wishlist
File: cups

Hi.  I hate CUPS.  You have my sympathies.  :-P

I've been trying to help a friend with his system.  I point a web
browser at http://127.0.0.1:631, and it asks me for a password.
Neither my user acct. password, nor root's password, works.

However, http://localhost:631 works.  WTF?!?  Isn't 127.0.0.1, by
definition, localhost?

This is probably an upstream issue (twits!), but it's certainly
annoying.  Aren't there RFC's out there that define this stuff?  Is
upstream ignoring RFCs?

Have a great week.  :-)


PS.  Yeah, I'm still running old-stable, but I doubt this situation is
     any different in Sid, since the same problem appears to exist in
     *buntu.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser               3.63               Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf               1.4.30.13          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2         1.1.23-10sarge1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10   1.1.23-10sarge1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls11           1.0.16-13.2sarge2  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libpam0g              0.76-22            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.14-3           Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1               1.0.11a-2          OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                 2.5.9-2            Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules          5.8.4-8sarge5      Core Perl modules
ii  xpdf-utils            3.00-13.6          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2  compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb