Re: unsolicited controls (Was: I-DACTION:draft-weltman-ldapv3-auth-response-01.txt)

[dboreham@netscape.com (David Boreham)]

Examples ?

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> I like to voice a general concern about unsolicited response
> controls.  That is, controls provided by servers without the
> client implicit or explicit solicitating the control.
>
> I believe we should discourage unsolicited controls in responses.
>
> As the number of such controls increase, which is inevidable,
> clients and networks will be overloaded with unneeded information.
> It would prudent, IMO, to provide and encourage use of client
> solicatation of desired information.  That is, our general
> protocol model is one of client request/server response.  I
> see no overriding reason why this particular control should
> not be sent without solicitation.
>
> I suggest that this response control be explicitly solicited
> by the client via a request control.
>
>         Kurt