On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 18:53, Tim Showalter wrote: ... > Not quite: that allows a client to ask to be returned to the unselected > state. They're asking for a way for the server to kick the client into > the unselected state. > > (Personally, given clients won't easily be able to test that, and it > will be hard to motivate client authors to enable such a thing, I > suggest that such functionality is already available with BYE.)
There is already precedence for a similar function. The BAD response from a failed SELECT will kick the client back to the Authenticated state instead of leaving it in an already Selected state. IMO, I believe it may make sense to allow the server the ability in some error case to force the client out of a Selected state. I admit, though, I can not think of a use case, and software design's version of Occam's Razor would dictate that if you don't have a use case then don't add it. Mike
