[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#520085: problem is a mismatch between iceweasel and cups configuration (Re: iceweasel: Does not offer any printers)

[Jonathan Nieder]

retitle 520085 libcups: fall back to connecting to localhost:631 when cups.sock is absent
severity 520085 wishlist
tags 520085 + upstream
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Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:16:10PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

>>> The problem is that iceweasel is trying to get the cups printer list
>>> by connecting to /var/run/cups/cups.sock.  If cupsd isn't configured
>>> to listen with
>>>
>>> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
>>>
>>> in /etc/cupsd.conf, iceweasel won't get any printer information back.
>>>
>>> The distributed cupsd.conf now includes this line, but some of us with
>>> older cups installations didn't end up with the change when we got
>>> careless on an upgrade (that's what happened to me).  While this is
>>> admittedly  user error, it seems reasonable to also try to connect
>>> on :631
[...]
> From what I can tell, GTK+ directly relies on libcups to DTRT. So if a
> fallback needs to be implemented, I guess it should be implemented in
> libcups itself.

Thanks.  Axel, Joe, et al: if you're interested in pursuing this,
please file a report at http://cups.org/str.php?U, and let us know the
bug number so we can track it.