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Re: siezlimit in RFC2251



On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:52:52PM +0100, Volpers, Helmut wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:01:39PM -0600, Mark Wahl wrote:
> > > Roland Hedberg wrote:
> > > >
> > > There is no limit on continuation references.  You always 
> > > receive all of them.
> > 
> > Oh, that's interesting.
> > So a client can protect itself from receiving to much back
> > when it concerns entries but not when dealing with references.
> > 
> > So it would be OK for a LDAP server to return 1.000.000 ( 
> > just to pick a 
> > big number) sets of continuation references or more. I wonder 
> > how many client 
> > implementors that has taken this into account.
> 
> But thats also the way how it is in X.500. The references have nothing to do
> with the sizelimit.

So probably the guys defining X.500 made the same implicit (or is it stated explicit?)
assumption as is now obvious in LDAP: 

The expectation is that it will NEVER happen that a LDAPserver
as a result of a query return lots and lots of continuation references. 

I wonder if that assumption is valid ??

-- Roland
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