Re: found a weird bug....

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

Good catch. I did not read the original message close enough

Graham.

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:30:13AM -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> 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.
>