| Newsgroups |
gmane.ietf.ldup |
| Message-ID |
<[email protected]> |
Still one point on the club example:
If the club membership is maintained in the directory your solution is ok,
if the club membership is maintained outside the directory ( in the client )
it is not.
Jukka
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Rich Megginson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 24. September 2001 17:20
> To: Aakula Jukka (NET/Espoo)
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Question on LCUP
>
>
> JUKA AAKULA wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the answer, Rich
> >
> > Still a question below:
> >
> > >> But suppose the client keeps a more dynamic cache in the sense
> > >> that when the client "gets interested" in a certain entry,
> > >> the client allways makes a Persistent Search ?
> > >
> > >Do you mean the client makes an additional Persistent
> Search? I don't
> > think that would be necessary. If the client somehow
> > >becomes interested in an entry outside the scope of the
> current LCUP
> > request, the client could simply close the connection
> > >and issue another LCUP request with a wider scope.
> >
> > Take an example: there are one million subscribers in a telephone
> > catalogue. Each subscriber entry is immediately
> > below the root entry.
> >
> > A client maintains a cache with a subset of the subscriber
> entries using
> > persistent search. Each time a new subscriber is added in
> the subset the
> > subscriber entry is searched for in the telephone catalogue using
> > persistent search. (The subset is say
> > members of some club.)
> >
> > Is such use of LCUP fully infeasible ?
>
> No. In the LCUP model, you would do an LCUP (persistent)
> search with (for example) a base of o=root and a search filter of
> cn=some club. When a new entry is added, only that new entry
> is sent back via the persistent search. If for some reason the
> client was disconnected, the client issues an LCUP search the
> next time it is connected and gets back only the entries which were
> added or modified since the last LCUP search.
>
> > Or should the client make a persistent search for all the
> entries in the
> > catalogue but skipping those
> > it's not interested in ?
>
> I'm not sure that's necessary, since LCUP should only give
> you back the entries you are interested in.
>
> >
> >
> > Jukka
>