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Re: [ldapext] features-05 comments
Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>>>At 12:07 PM 12/20/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>>>> 2. Discovery of supported features
>>>>
>>>>> A client may examine the values of this attribute to
>>>>> determine if a particular feature is supported by the server. A
>>>>> client MUST ignore values it doesn't recognize as they refer to
>>>>> elective features it doesn't implement.
>>>>
>>>>What's the point of the last sentence? What else could the client do
>>>>with a feature it doesn't know about?
>>>
>>> Not ignore the unrecognized feature. That is, fail to continue
>>> processing due to presence of a unrecognized value in
>>> 'supportedFeatures'.
>>
>>Sounds like you are saying 'the client may instead be ridiculously
>>stupid'. I don't think a MUST is needed to prevent that, or even that
>>it's any of our business if the client does this:-)
>
> Maybe so. I likely put that statement just after dealing
> with a ridiculously stupid client.
Suggest s/MUST/can/.
--
Hallvard
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