RE: JAVA SDK and error code handling for Server Side Sorting

["John Liang" <John.Liang@openwave.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 3:58 PM
> To: John.Liang@openwave.com
> Cc: ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject: Re: JAVA SDK and error code handling for Server Side Sorting
> 
> 
> At 11:37 AM 4/27/01, John Liang wrote:
> >It sounds to me Netscape JAVA API expects LDAP_SUCCESS 
> >in SearchResultDone message when there is an error associated
> >with SSS control. 
> 
> That appears to be the RFC 2891 described behavior (section 2,
> item 4).
> 

RFC 2891 makes use of the control's criticality field to decide to
send unsorted result or not. I remember that it only makes sense
if the LDAP server does not support this control. So was it changed
somehow? 

I thought the I-D draft for control error is going to be applied for
all controls besides VLV. 

Thanks,
--
John Liang