> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:23:15 +0100
> From: Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > The problem with doing this is if a 1.1. client send such a
> > request to a current 1.0 server, the server will return an
> > error. This also includes any request to get the explain record,
> > so we can't work out the version from that (or just keep trying
> > different versions until we get something?)
>
> Why can't we have version 1.0 servers and version 1.1 servers? If a
> version 1.0 server gets a 1.1 request it's going to fail it at the
> toolkit level because it doesn't conform to the spec. 1.0 talking
> to 1.0 will still work, as will 1.1 to 1.1
That's pretty poor. In Z39.50, version 2 and version 3 clients can
interoperate just fine -- they negotiate the best shared level of
protocol support. If this stuff is meant to be The Next Generation,
it ought to do at least as well.
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