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Common UNIX Printing System

by Michael R. Sweet
August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
11h 18m
English
Sams
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Chapter 19Writing Notifiers for CUPS

This chapter describes how to write a notifier for CUPS and how the mailto notifier works.

What Are Notifiers?

Notifiers are programs that send IPP notifications via various protocols. CUPS provides notifier programs for the indp and mailto protocols. The ippget protocol is implemented as an internal method because it uses an HTTP connection from the recipient.

Notifiers are fairly simple programs and merely need to read IPP event messages and send them to the recipient. The CUPS API includes functions for reading and decoding these messages.

Notification and notifier support is available starting with CUPS 1.2.

The CUPS Notifier Architecture

Each notifier program uses a common interface. Notifiers are ...

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