On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:16:44PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:10:55PM -0700, Cory Myers wrote:
>
> >Whose bright-spark idea was it to use a common HTTP port for a *printer
> >driver*?
>
> Probably someone dealing with the sort of corporate firewall that's
> common in places where HP printers are used, who's only allowed to
> connect on ports 80 and 8080, and who knows that 80 is "insecure" for
> some cargo-cult reason...
But it's not[1] a network printer. It's your basic home-office
monochrome USB laser printer. And it's claiming 8080 on *localhost*.
There should be no network connections involved at all.
[1] Well, it has a built-in wireless print server. But then the
*server* should need to listen on 8080, not the clients connecting
to it.
