Re: Listing request names

[Mark Wahl <M.Wahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I see no problem with a real-time protocol from the end-user's perspective,
> provided that Paul wants to deal with the implementation from the service
> side. This could be more difficult than its worth because of threaded web
> servers; he might have to deal with maintaining state across multiple
> stateless protocol transactions; or maybe there is a way to configure
> whatever web server he's planning on using to process requests serially?

For _temporary_ OIDs I don't think thread state would be needed.  Just invoke 
a CGI script which locks a file, increments a value stored in it, and returns 
an OID derived from that value.

Given the fashion of having web page counters there are likely to be many 
examples around of how this is implemented for various platforms.

Mark Wahl, Enterprise Directory Integration
Critical Angle Inc.