HTTPrint

A very simple web interface to upload and print files.

Install and run

Dependencies:

• Python 3
• pdfinfo executable; usually found in the poppler-utils package

To install it:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py
# if you want to install these modules for an unprivileged user, add --user and remove "sudo";
# if you want to upgrade the versions already present in the system, also add --upgrade
sudo pip3 install tornado
git clone https://github.com/alberanid/httprint
cd httprint
./httprint.py --debug

Now you can point your browser to http://localhost:7777/

You can also run the server in https, putting in the ssl directory two files named httprint_key.pem and httprint_cert.pem

By default:

• the --print-with-code argument is true, and the uploaded files are just scheduled for priting. To actually print them, you should supply the generated code, for example: curl -X POST http://localhost:7777/api/print/1234
• --max-pages is set to 10, limiting the number of allowed copies
• --pdf-only is true, meaning that only PDF files are allowed
• --check-pdf-pages is true, and the number of pages of a PDF are taken into consideration, calculating the maximum number of pages to print

See the --help output for more options.

Once a document is queued, it can be made persistent creating an empty file code-docname.pdf.keep in the queue directory.

License and copyright

Copyright 2019 Davide Alberani da@mimante.net

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.