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Re: TLS or plain?

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Subject: Re: TLS or plain?
From: Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:33:16 +0200
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
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Stephen Frost wrote:

That would be ldaps:// vs. ldap:// with TLS, as I said above, yes.

Again you are using TLS as synonym for StartTLS extended operation. This is not correct. TLS is not part of LDAP. StartTLS extended operation is.

Yes, I'm nitpicking here. But it's important to correctly sort that out to avoid confusion.

Ciao, Michael.

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