At 4:39 PM -0400 5/22/09, David Wierbowski wrote:
>Did I say either of the quotes you sent make it sound like one could not sent 
>hash-and-URL if HTTP_CERT_LOOKUP_SUPPORTED was not received?

Sorry, I took it as implied.

>I said I'm confused by Tero's previous answer which makes it sound as if such 
>a restriction is implied.

I actually don't even take that from Tero's response, but he wasn't clear 
either way.

>I guess the value in the HTTP_CERT_LOOKUP_SUPPORTED notify is that you know 
>when it is safe to use the hash and URL encoding

Yep.

>, but it also allows you to send the hash and URL encoding to a peer that may 
>have disabled that support via a configuration option.

Yep.

> That doesn't seem like a good design to me, but it's certainly flexible :>).

Much of IKEv1 and IKEv2 are not "good design" because of too much flexibility, 
but the alternative is being too restrictives for many environments.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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