On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Mike Kershaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:32:01PM -0400, John Mort wrote:
> > Yesterday my company received a new printer. The printer comes with a web
> > interface that lets it easily be installed on windows clients, however
> > certain applications didn't appear to like the printer so I figured I'd
> try
> > installing it on the CUPS server and installing it on the clients that
> way.
> > After I added the printer to CUPS, every two minutes the printer receives
> a
> > print job from users "Unknown", and prints out the following:
> >
> > POST / HTTP/1.1
> > Content-Length: 288
> > Content-Type: application/ipp
> > Host: 192.168.111.4 (this is the printers IP)
> > User-Agent: CUPS/1.3.7
> > Expect: 100-continue
> >
> > Then what appears to be two lines of text printed over top each other.  I
> > tried disabling ipp on the printer, hoping this would make it ignore the
> > strange print requests, yet they still keep coming.  The job log in CUPS
> > doesn't show anything like this. I'm not sure what to do.  Has anyone had
> a
> > problem like this before?
>
> Sounds like the printer is interpreting a status query as a print
> command?
>
> Put a packet sniffer on the cups box and grab the frame it sends and see
> what the query contains?
>
> -m
>

I'm trying to figure out the packet sniffer now, but at one point I had
tried removing the printer from CUPS and it was still happening.  Would CUPS
continue to check the status of a printer after it had been removed?

-- 
John D. Mort
http://john.mort.net
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