Re: protocol: closing SASL upon Unbind

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>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.

If so, [SASL] should be modified to mention such a facility: The
application shouldn't need to know that the particilar SASL layer it is
using has such a facility; the SASL implementation itself should provide
a "close the current layer" function.

>>I suggest
>>
>>    - cease exchanges at the the SASL layer (if installed),

-- 
Hallvard