Re: Issue 5.1) SSH End of message directive

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

Mark Stahl writes:
>If the whole session is one document, a syntax error in one message would
>require abandoning the session to reset the parser.

Yup.

>How does the NetConf spec address syntax errors in the message stream?

An error in the content should cause an error message to be generated.
The client and server should be able to recover.  An error in the
protocol or the framing should cause the connection to be dropped,
since you can't guarantee recovery.

Thanks,
 Phil

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