Re: protocol: closing SASL upon Unbind

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 01:59 PM 12/6/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>protocol-28 section 4.3 (Unbind Operation) says:
>
>> (...) close the LDAP session as follows:
>>
>>   - cease exchanges at the LDAP message layer,
>>   - close the SASL layer (if installed),
>
>No.  To do that, one simply closes the connection.  As I noted earlier,
>[SASL] does not define the operation of closing a SASL layer, it only
>defines replacing it with another layer.

The SASL mechanism itself may provide a layer closure facility
and, if so, it should be used.

Kurt

>I suggest
>
>    - cease exchanges at the the SASL layer (if installed),
>
>>   - close the TLS layer (if installed), and
>>   - close the transport connection.
>
>-- 
>Hallvard