Mac OS X appears unable to add printers connected to print servers using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) over HTTP. CUPS, an under the covers component of OS X and UNIX, allows you to overcome that limitation.
OS X printer setup bug: No IPP over HTTP
May 14th, 2009 7 Comments
Tags: Bug · CUPS · http · Internet Printing Protocol · IPP · IPP over HTTP · network printing · os x · print server · printing
How browsers detect whether the URL points to a file or a directory
September 1st, 2008 No Comments
Suppose you are a browser and you get a URL like:
http://www.enavigo.com/awesome
How do you know if awesome is a directory or a file?
A really nice hint you’d be nice to give is to append a slash to the URL whenever you denote a directory.
So how *can* you find that out?
The only way I found out [...]
Tags: directory · file · http · web servers
Deploying a web application to Jetty
August 29th, 2008 4 Comments
The Jetty web application server is great. It is just not very well document and when it is documented it is aimed for the very uninitiated. If you’re using Jetty, it is almost like an old boys club – ‘you made it’.
Still, it appears that Jetty and Tomcat are becoming much more similar in their [...]
Tags: context · context.xml · http · Java · jetty · jsp · tomcat · web application server · web application · web.xml · XML