Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

[John Blinka]

Ernie Schroder wrote:

>Make sure that you have the file:
>
>/usr/share/cups/docs/index.html
>
>and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that other
>html pages display properly.
>
>
It's there.   In fact, that's the file that's being displayed improperly.
Its contents are identical to the same file on other systems I own
which display correctly, so that's not the problem.  And all other
html pages display correctly.  So...

1)  the problem is not the contents, permissions, or presence
     of the file - they're all identical to other systems in which
     the file displays properly.  In fact, the file displays
     properly (almost) if I access it as
     file:///usr/share/cups/docs/index.html instead of
     http://localhost:631
2)  the problem is not specific to a browser - the same behavior
     occurs with Firefox and Konqueror.
3)  the problem is not html per se - all other html pages display
     properly.
4)  if I stop cupsd, then the browser claims that the request
     for http://localhost:631 is refused.

The evidence suggests to me that there's something unfortunate
happening with whatever occurs when I supply http://localhost:631
to the browser.  cupsd is the agent listening at port 631 and it's
the source of the error.  I'm guessing that when cupsd supplies the
contents of /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html  to the browser, the browser
doesn't realize that it's receiving html and so renders it as raw text.

John


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