Bug#373281: cupsys: browser admin problems fixed by using ip6-localhost:631

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I fear that I have a stranger (hardware) 
issue that made some of my attempts at changing software moot. In 
particular /dev/lp0 didn't appear until about 30 minutes after a reboot.

I ended up downgrading cupsys-driver-gutenprint from 
4.3.99+cvs20060521-4 to 4.3.99+cvs20060521-2 as this appeared to be the 
only CUPS related software recently updated in unstable.

It is probably best to close my reported bug.

Regards,

Arthur Marsh.

Roger Leigh wrote:
> Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> writes:
>
> > I had problems getting Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 to do CUPS
> > administration on http://localhost:631/
>
> Could you try HTTPS:
>
>   https://localhost:631/
>
> > I was able to get things working better by using:
> >
> > http://ip6-localhost:631/
>
> And again here:
>
>   https://ip6-localhost:631/
>
>
> Note this part of cupsd.conf:
>
> # Restrict access to the admin pages...
> <Location /admin>
>   Encryption Required
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow localhost
> </Location>
>
> The "Encryption Required" means you must you HTTPS in order to access
> it.  Plain HTTP won't work.
>
> > and I had not done anything to use IP6 specifically in CUPS.
>
> It's completely automatic; CUPS 1.2 now had IPv6 support, so it will
> be completely transparent.
>
> If you post your cupsd.conf, it might show why "localhost" and
> "ip6-localhost" are being treated differently.
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger