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Re: new internet draft - LDAP Extensions Style Guide

At 03:32 PM 8/14/2000 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
At 02:19 PM 8/14/00 -0700, Bruce Greenblatt wrote:
>At 12:20 PM 8/14/2000 -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
>>I thought Harald and I had reasonable examples of unsolicited return
>>controls (e.g., "search results not legally binding" and "shift-JIS
>>encoded") that made sense.
>
>Hmmm... All that I got out of that was that if the client didn't understand the Japanese control then it would be gibberish. Thus, the client could safely ignore the control... Perhaps we need a new control on the Bind operation that lists the Client's supported controls. Then, the server is not allowed to send back any unsupported controls.

Why not have the server list the controls in supports in the
Root DSE and have the client solicit which controls it desires
to be returned.

Isn't that almost the same? What's the difference between having the client solicit the controls it desires, and listing the Client's supported controls on the Bind. There's no real need for the Client to consult the Root DSE. If the client just lists it's supported controls, the list can be canned rather than produced later on. Also, this would allow controls to supplied and returned on the Bind, and other operations without having to retrieve the Root DSE entry... Bruce

Kurt

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