Using the gtk print backend with CUPS and SSL

[Vince Busam <vbusam google com>]

With the patches referenced in 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451070 I've been able to get a 
list of printers from my local CUPS server which requires SSL.  However, 
it takes a long time with a ~30 second wait for a response from the CUPS 
server while the whole gtk app blocks.  I bet this is due to the app 
opening an initializing dozens of SSL sockets to the server - a new one 
for each request, without closing any of them.  Eventually the server will 
respond to the last connection, and the printer list will fill.  Does 
anybody have any tips for the best way to go about re-using one SSL socket 
for those requests, or at least closing the connection after each request?

Thanks,
Vince