GUI does not accept all URL schemes accepted by CUPS itself

[Ryan Lovett]

The GUI does not accept https:// printer locations. It instead modifies the
location by prefixing it with ipp, e.g.
ipp://https://servername:port/printers/foo. Both CUPS (printers.conf) and
Windows allow one to enter https locations. Also, it'd be nice if the dialog
could detect if a user entered a bad protocol and then let them know rather than
accepting and mangling the location.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156431: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156431

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've opened a bug upstream for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156431

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 9482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> *** Bug 9482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

As noted in #2783, this affects at least one other scheme (bluetooth://)

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

Although not exactly a duplicate, HPLIP schema hp:// is also missing. See bug 25630

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Changing to confirmed as I can replicate this currently.

[TJ (tj)]

This bug is still outstanding in Feisty, for bluetooth:// URIs at least. Is there something we can do to get it sorted out?

[Sundeep Ghuman (sundeepghuman)]

I've found a workaround for the meantime... use the web access GUI by directing your browser to http://localhost:631/admin and then click printers, modify printer, and when u set the URL just remove the ipp:// prefix and the WEB interface will not automatically reattach it.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Does this problem occur with system-config-printer (install it with "sudo apt-get install system-config-printer" for testing)?

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

We have changed the default print management system in Ubuntu from gnome-cups-manager to system-config-printer because g-c-m is no longer maintained. We'll not be making changes to g-c-m at this point. Please open a new bug against system-config-printer if you still have this problem with Gutsy or Hardy. Thanks!

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