RE: [protocol] maxInt

[John McMeeking <jmcmeek@us.ibm.com>]

I don't think any elaboration in [protocol] is necessary.  I was just
explaining my response.

John  McMeeking


"Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote on 09/27/2004 02:33:32 PM:

> At 05:58 AM 9/27/2004, John McMeeking wrote:
> >I agree with keeping the existing limits, though I hope an
implementation
> >would return protocol error if presented with a value greater than 2^^31
-
> >1 for these fields.
>
> >messageID - message ids are assigned by the client.
>
> The server cannot return a protocol error here without itself
> violating the protocol.  Notice of Disconnect seems more appropriate
> here (especially given that it likely that the future requests
> would also likely suffer from the same problem).
>
> For the other cases, returning protocol error seems reasonable.
> However, a server may not be able to parse PDUs containing
> INTEGERs above maxInt.  So here, Notice of Disconnect is also
> reasonable.
>
> I see no need to elaborate on this in [Protocol].  Do you?
>
> Kurt
>