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draft-trammell-rains-protocol: RAINS, Another Internet Naming System
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Server-Server vs Server-Client behavior #27

Closed fehlmach closed 6 years ago

fehlmach commented 6 years ago

"Servers only process query and notification sections when connected to clients; a client sending assertions to a server results in a 400 Bad Message notification."

How does a server know if a connection is initiated by a client or by a server? If it cannot distinguish the two it also cannot act accordingly.

britram commented 6 years ago

Proposed solution: connection initiators and responders always send capabilities on connection, server-ness is a mandatory capability.

britram commented 6 years ago

Alternate proposed solution: "I don't need a signature, please verify assertion for me" is a query option which only clients send.