Comment 5 for bug 44931

> >Can you be more specific about "insisting"? If I open
> >http://localhost:631/admin, I can use everything without going over SSL.
> >So, it doesn't force use of HTTS.

> Even when one starts at localhost:631 and attempts to add a printer
> the final step insists that one access :443 port. After adding /etc/cups/ssl
> one still doesn't get a lot of success as key generation seems to take
> forever. To the point that I just used command line openssl command
> to generate a key. I do recall that in a previous test I waited a few
> hours and it eventually appeared, however, this is clearly unsatisfactory
> behaviour.

As far as I can tell, this has, in fact, been resolved. Cups no longer requires
HTTPS to change administrative settings on my machine, up-to-date as of
2006-06-05. Note that this was previously not the case (about 3 weeks? ago,
when this bug was originally filed).

-Forest