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Re: Socket is closed on stopTLS (ITS#1591)



At 09:54 AM 2002-02-07, CMorris@novell.com wrote:
>I've been testing start and stop TLS against Kurt's server on
>www.OpenLDAP.org 
>When I send the close TLS alert to the server, the server shuts down
>the socket 
>entirely, rather than revert to an anonymous connection (rfc 2830 4.1
>and 5.2).

This is done purposely to avoid sending results from operations
which may be in progress.  I note that a server is always free
to abruptly close the session.

Kurt