CORBA34 — new_target

Summary: Section 4.7.4 - description of new_target operation.

The first para states:

"The new_target operation informs the firewall that it should prepare itself
to
receive requests destined for the specified target. The object returned
from this
operation is the destination on the firewall to which a request on the
target should be
sent i.e. the object_key in the return object should be used in the GIOP
request header."

and the last para says:

"The object returned by the new_target operation must contain an object key
which
allows the proxy to uniquely identify the target. A client is not required
to open a new
connection to the proxy server, even when the target object(s) are located
in different
servers."

The last sentence implies that the IOR returned from the new_target has the
same host/port number as the GIOPProxy. This may not be true. For example if
a firewall is load balancing across ports and network interfaces, the
host/ports may be differnt, and in this situation a new connection is
required.

Deferred

This proposal was generated automatically by request of the Task Force Chair Adam Mitz.