[Quickfix-developers] RE: fromAdmin/fromApp not getting called on Logout from rejected logon

[Jason F. <jf...@ty...>]

> Sounds like a bug in QuickFIX.  According to the FIX 4.4 spec, in the
> Session Protocol section, page 6:
>
> "If authentication fails, the session acceptor should shut down the
> connection after *optionally sending a Logout message* to indicate the
> reason of failure"
>
> Emphasis mine.  So it is possible to receive a Logout without having
> successfully logged in.  I think there just needs to be a small change
> to Session::validLogonState to handle this case.  Something like:
>
>    if ( msgType == MsgType_Logout && m_state.sentLogon ())
>        return true;
>
> The Session::nextLogout code should probably NOT generate a Logout
> response in response to this message, however.

Caleb,

That's what I thought, I'll try your suggested change and see if that helps
with my problem.

Thanks for the tip.

Jason