Filed as the following Apple bug report:
<rdar://problem/14217326> cups.org: Useless error message in http-support.c
I don't think we'll use the proposed patch, but we can come up with something...
On 2013-06-11, at 8:24 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <didier.rab...@liip.ch> wrote:
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
>
> Hi ael,
>
> I can confirm this patch would still apply in cups 1.6.2.
>
> Le samedi, 15 octobre 2011 23.32:13, ael a écrit :
>> I am trying to locate a bug in cups which currently looks like a
>> broken pipe. After attempts to write to a socket, an http status
>> of HTTP_ERROR is returned which does not have a case in the relevant
>> switch statement in cups/http-support.c.
>>
>> As a result, the unhelpful default message "Unknown" is passed back to the
>> user who is none the wiser.
>>
>> The attached patch improves the default message, and adds an extra
>> branch for HTTP_ERROR. There should perhaps be further cases for
>> other values in http.h which are not covered explicitly.
>
> Michael: this patch [0] could be of interest to you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Didier
>
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
> bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=http_errormsg.patch;att=1;bug=645436
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