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Re: Protocol: referrals and other URIs

To: Jong <jongchoi@OpenLDAP.org>
Subject: Re: Protocol: referrals and other URIs
From: markcsmithwork@aol.com (Mark C Smith)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:04:08 -0500
Cc: Jim Sermersheim <jimse@novell.com>, ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
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Jong wrote:

Other kinds of URIs may be returned. The syntax and symantics of such
URIs is left to future specifications. Clients ignore URIs that they
don't support.

I am not sure we should say that clients ignore URIs that they do not understand. A client may want to display them to the user or report an error in some way if a referral was returned that could not be followed (or understood).

-Mark

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