Re: Using the gtk print backend with CUPS and SSL

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 6/27/07, Vince Busam <vbusam google com> wrote:
> With the patches referenced in
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451070 I've been able to get a
> list of printers from my local CUPS server which requires SSL.  However,
> it takes a long time with a ~30 second wait for a response from the CUPS
> server while the whole gtk app blocks.  I bet this is due to the app
> opening an initializing dozens of SSL sockets to the server - a new one
> for each request, without closing any of them.  Eventually the server will
> respond to the last connection, and the printer list will fill.  Does
> anybody have any tips for the best way to go about re-using one SSL socket
> for those requests, or at least closing the connection after each request?

The cups backend needs to be fixed to use a single connection anyway.
The current method of using multiple connections was hitting cups
max-connection limits at about 220 printers until I did some minimal
fixes recently.