Bug#711192: cups-client: clients (lpstat, lpq...) no longer work via http

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Wed 05 Jun 2013 at 18:25:07 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:

> What is the content of /etc/cups/client.conf and does it work if you replace 
> the hostname by its IP?
> 
> Also what version of CUPS is the server running?
> 
> Note that according to the changelog, "The default IPP version for requests is 
> now 2.0 (STR #3929)", so you need a recent-enough cups server. You can also 
> try to add '?version=1.0' to the device URI to use legacy compatibility mode. 
> 
> Looking forward to your findings,


This change in default IPP version is very likely the cause of the problem.
Upstream apparently has a solution in CUPS 1.7 and there is useful advice
given in bug #704238.

Regards,

Brian.