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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Chris Bennett <
ch...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote:

> Sorry if this is too off-topic. The DNS servers here are already down 3
> days and my mod_perl books are in a storage room.
>
> I am updating and expanding OpenBSD's lpr/lpd to newer code and adding
> things such as IPP and better security, etc.
>
> Oracle did IPP using Apache a long time ago.
>
> I want to go ahead and get things written and tested on Apache first,
> since I know it. For this I will write new code and temporarily use some
> existing modules for the functions they offer. But existing modules are
> almost all object oriented, so I will need to ditch that and write code
> that can be converted to C at some point (or maybe not).
>
>
> So how does my handler module get interpreted and used and re-used after
> starting the server? Is it turned into C code or something else?
> Sorry, I'd search for some material, but if I can't
> use an IP address, most sites won't come up.
> If someone has an address where I can download source with just an IP
> address, I would appreciate it.
>
>
>
> An example of one thing that needs doing. Most programs assume that lp
> is the printer to print to. Period. The printcap file can be filled with
> all the options for each printer(s), but only lp will be used.
> Being able to dynamically change printer lp to have the values from
> printer aps4 and running lpc to update things would be great. Change
> from 300x300 to 1200x1200 would be fantastic when using a program that
> offers no options for running lpr.
> Being able to run this from the command line or a nice web browser page
> would make life easy.
>
> You can reply to me off-list if this should not be on the mailing list.
>
> Thanks
> Chris Bennett
>
>


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