BIND issue: 5.1_LOOP_STATUS

Back in October, Geoff Clemm wrote:

> If we handled it the way proposed below, the old clients will just ignore
> the new element, and the user will incorrectly conclude that the
collection
> had no child by that name.  With the original proposal, users of
> old clients will be told that there is a child, and will get the
> error message that they've already seen that child, so it is
> being left out of the report.  I think the later is preferable.

I agree that introducing a new error marshalling concept just for an edge
case here (Depth: infinity and bind loop) is unnecessary, in particular if
it may confuse old clients. Therefore the issue should be closed.

Julian

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Received on Friday, 7 February 2003 09:02:25 UTC