"LeVan,Ralph" wrote: > So, the client bids for a > sessionID in a request and gets one (probably with a TTL (Time To Live) > value like resultSetID's). Questions: 1.What does "client bids" mean? (in terms of SRW/U) 2. If the client doesn't "bid" then the server doesn't supply a session id? 3. If the client bids and the server doesn't support sessions, it ignores the bid? 4. What's the relationship between a result set ttl and a session id ttl? If the session times out, do all of the result sets created in that session automatically time out regardless of their ttl? > The sessionID will be used in subsequent > responses. 5. And requestS, too (for that session) I presume? > (It would be polite if the server ignored the bid if it was > accompanied by a sessionID. 6. Huh? Thanks. --Ray