Bug#704238: Need to document the CUPS client's new server-version option
Didier,
On 2013-06-06, at 2:59 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
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>> ServerName cups.example.com/version=1.1
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> Indeed. That's confirmed to address Vincent's issue. Although it's kinda
> surprising that it's impossible to detect that at runtime, but that's an
> upstream decision…
It isn't impossible, but it can be unreliable and is problematic for existing users of the cupsSendRequest/cupsGetResponse APIs - they have to handle the downgrading themselves.
We *did* try tracking the supported IPP version in the first version of the patch for this issue, but it didn't work reliably. Forcing the issue in client.conf seemed the safest approach.
Filed as the following bug in Apple's bug tracker:
<rdar://problem/14216262> cups.org: Missing documentation for ServerName foo/version=1.1 in client.conf
(looking forward to getting the cups.org bug tracker back up...)
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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