[sane-devel] sane-airscan 0.99.22 release notes

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Alexander,

Alexander Pevzner writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've just released sane-aircan version 0.99.22
>
> This version fixes compatibility with Lexmark 2236 and Xerox 3225 when
> working using WSD protocol. These strange devices return errors (for
> example, empty ADF) using HTTP 200 response code, instead of expected
> 4xx or 5xx status codes.

Any chance these HTTP 200 response codes are accompanied by a nice HTML
error page?  As in, yes, we just _successfully_ sent you an error page.

I've seen similar behaviour with an "enterprise-grade" proxy when my
login expired.  As long as you are using a browser, you don't notice
something's amiss but as soon as you use your package manager it gets
very, very confused.
If only it would have returned that page with a HTTP 407 response code
... even a 401 would have been an improvement ...

# BTW, that proxy didn't support http://user:password@example.com style
# passwords either.  It insisted on an HTML page with a login dialog.
# Solved things by logging in as soon as I got into the office and
# keeping that from expiring with a cron job fetching a page through the
# proxy every so often :-)

> Binary packages are available in usual place:
>   https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pzz/

Hope this helps,
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