Re: problems with Net::LDAP 0.16 on solaris

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:40:44PM -0700, Pythagoras Watson wrote:
> I have attached a script that can be used to cause this problem.
> Basically, the script sits between your client and the LDAP server.
> Client requests are sent to the server.  Server responses are sent to
> the client, but are split into small packets that arrive slowly.  This
> causes asn_recv() to enter this "if" statement:
>   74        if ($len > length $buf) {
>   75          # Cannot get whole element
>   76          $_[1]='';
>   77          return $peer;
>   78        }

While I would agree that this would cause the problem with asn_recv, it does
not explain why scripts hang when we use asn_read instead of asn_recv.

If I could fix that I would just change back to using read instead
of recv which is what previous versions of Net::LDAP use.

Graham.

PS: Thanks for the patch.