RE: found a weird bug....

[Kurt D. Z. <Ku...@Op...>]

At 02:59 AM 5/10/00 -0700, Pythagoras Watson wrote:
>This appears to be a decoding error on Net::LDAP's part.  When the
>operation number (5th byte of response) reaches 128 (0x80), the
>resulting message code changes to two.
>
>To wit:
>  searching 126
>  ...
>  30 38 02 01 7F 64 33 04 2F 75 69 64 3D 70 79 2C 08...d3./uid=py,
>  ...
>  0002 02    1:   INTEGER = 127
>  ...
>  searching 127
>  ...
>  30 38 02 01 80 64 33 04 2F 75 69 64 3D 70 79 2C 08...d3./uid=py,
>  ...
>  0002 02    1:   INTEGER = -128
>  search failed: 2
>

	02 01 7F ==  127
	02 01 80 == -128

02 INTEGER
01 length of 1
xx 2-complement base-256 value

From RSA's Layman's Guide:
> Some example BER encodings (which also happen to be DER
> encodings) are given in Table 3.
>
>                   Integer   BER encoding
>                   value
>                   0         02 01 00
>                   127       02 01 7F
>                   128       02 02 00 80
>                   256       02 02 01 00
>                   -128      02 01 80
>                   -129      02 02 FF 7F

Appears to me that your server is broke.