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Re: [ldapext] Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-sermersheim-ldap-subordinate-scope-00.txt



At 09:33 AM 8/24/2004, Michael Ströder wrote:
>Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>To me, the implication is that servers should only return
>>such URLs when the clients specifically request that they
>>be returned.
>
>And how should the client specifically request that they are returned? 

I'd use a control... or bind using version=4.

>Doesn't this make things more complicated at the client side?

I rather 'complicate' new clients than break old clients.

>IMO it should be subject to server configuration whether to return a new search scope or not. While planning a LDAP service deployment you already have to consider whether all the LDAP clients used behave nicely with this server (configuration).

Remember that we (the IETF) design protocols for the Internet,
not some local deployment where a single administrator has
control of all clients and servers.

Kurt 


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