[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#373281: cupsys: browser admin problems fixed by using ip6-localhost:631

[Roger Leigh]

Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh at internode.on.net> writes:

> I had problems getting Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 to do CUPS
> administration on http://localhost:631/

Could you try HTTPS:

  https://localhost:631/

> I was able to get things working better by using:
>
> http://ip6-localhost:631/

And again here:

  https://ip6-localhost:631/


Note this part of cupsd.conf:

# Restrict access to the admin pages...
<Location /admin>
  Encryption Required
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
</Location>

The "Encryption Required" means you must you HTTPS in order to access
it.  Plain HTTP won't work.

> and I had not done anything to use IP6 specifically in CUPS.

It's completely automatic; CUPS 1.2 now had IPv6 support, so it will
be completely transparent.

If you post your cupsd.conf, it might show why "localhost" and
"ip6-localhost" are being treated differently.


Regards,
Roger

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