abandon/cancel (Was: Returning Partial Results for an operation)

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

At 06:54 AM 1/3/01 -0700, Haripriya S wrote:
>IMO I see two kinds of responses a server may want to return on receiving an abandon:
> 
>1. A response to the abandon operation itself ( useful to clients to know that abandon was received).
>2. A partial/full response to the original operation which was abandoned ( useful for sending accumulated partial results).

The X.500 abandon operation has a response and requires that
the abandoned operation also has a response containing the
'abandoned' result.

>While the first requires an extended request and response and the need for the client to understand the same, the second may require a change to rfc2251 sec. 4.11 alone:

One must not confuse the existing LDAP abandon operation and
a new operation implementing the X.500 semantics.  I intend to
call this new operation the 'Cancel' extended operation such that
one will not (easily) confuse LDAP 'Abandon' requirements with
its requirements.  I do not believe any change to RFC 2251
will be need to fully specify a 'Cancel' operation which has
semantics similar to the X.500 Abandon operation.

Kurt