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Re: 'Unrecognized OIDs in request' control (Was: 'return unknown attrs' control)

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> 
> We need to be able to deal with dumb clients,

Agreed. That's why I'd vote for just generate more informative messages
and return it in errorMessage of the LDAPResult message. So every
existing LDAP client displaying / logging errorMessage can immediately
provide more information to the user / admin.

> Putting this into a(n optional) control seems reasonable, because there
> would be no impact if it's not requested.

Personally I see not much benefit since most LDAP clients will not
implement this.

Just my two cents especially since I'm not an OpenLDAP developer.

Ciao, Michael.