NAME

ippproxy - a simple ipp proxy client

SYNOPSIS

ippproxy [ --help ] [ -d device-uri ] [ -p password ] [ -u user ] [ -v[vv] ] infrastructure-printer-uri

DESCRIPTION

ippproxy is a simple IPP proxy client conforming to the IPP Shared Infrastructure Extensions (INFRA) specification. It can be used to proxy access to a local IPP printer through an Infrastructure Printer such as ippserver(1).

OPTIONS

The following options are recognized by ippproxy:

--help: Show program help.
-d device-uri: Specifies the local device using its URI. ippproxy supports "ipp", "ipps", and "socket" URIs.
-p password: Specifies the password to use when authenticating with the Infrastructure Printer.
-u user: Specifies the user name to use when authenticating with the Infrastructure Printer.
-v[vvv]: Be (very) verbose when logging activity to the standard output.

EXIT STATUS

The ippproxy program returns 1 if it is unable to process the command-line arguments or connect to either the infrastructure or local printers. Otherwise ippproxy will run continuously until terminated.

CONFORMING TO

The ippproxy program conforms to PWG Candidate Standard 5100.18: IPP Shared Infrastructure Extensions (INFRA).

EXAMPLE

Run ippproxy with an infrastructure URI of "ipps://host.example.com/ipp/print" and a local URI of "ipp://10.0.1.42/ipp/print":

    ippproxy -d ipp://10.0.1.42/ipp/print ipps://host.example.com/ipp/print