natty broke lpd://user@foo URLs

[jdreed]

See  http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/eoDD for an example of this. It worked on Lucid. But you can't actually type the "@" symbol in the box on Natty. We should investigate whether this was never supposed to work (from CUPS perspective) or whether Natty is trying to be "helpful" and being stupid.

[jdreed]

This also doesn't work in the CUPS web interface, which means that  http://localhost:631/help/network.html is full of lies. So I guess we get to write Popup for Linux or something awesome.

[pquimby]

This bug was introduced when new character masking was added in system-config-printer 1.2.5. There is an upstream fix adding '@', which has been reported to resolve the issue in Oneiric.

[jdreed]

These is even more awesome in Precise. I can add lpd://joeuser@mitprint.mit.edu/bw via s-c-p, and it works, but it insists its URI is "lpd://mitprint.mit.edu/bw", as does CUPS itself, _but_ it does correctly pass 'joeuser' on to mitprint. I'm not sure "works via black magic" is actually preferable to "doesn't work", so I think I'm going to stop caring and put more effort into debathena-pharos-support and documenting it.

[jdreed]

Ah, awesome. The only place the URI is correct and contains the username is in printers.conf. So this is "fixed" in that it works again, but this seems awfully fragile.