Re: stopping notifications

[Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com>]

Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com> wrote:
> The agent has to send something if a manager sends an RPC request
> during notification mode, even if it is a quick 'operation-failed' reply.

There's nothing in the draft that specifies this behaviour.

> Just letting the manager hang until it times out seems wrong.

Well it's wrong to try to send anything in notification mode...

> IMO, there is already code to close down the session in case
> it is dropped, and this is not nearly as hard to support as
> allowing any RPC method.

This is obviously implementation dependent.  In my implementation, I
would have to add code to detect this case and send an
'operation-failed' error instead of handling the request.


/martin

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