Re: Sort Response Error

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

What do you get from

  $mesg->control( LDAP_CONTROL_SORTRESULT )->result;

Did you have critical set to true ? Maybe the command line does.

If you did not and the server does not want to support it, then
it will just ignore you sent it.

Graham.


On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:01:02PM -0700, Jeff Mandel wrote:
> When using a server side sort for group owners, I'm getting mixed sort
> control errors.
> 
> Issue 1 for Net::LDAP:
> The result returned by LDAP_CONTROL might not be consistent with the
> command line in this case
> I query the LDAP for some groups, server side sorted by owner.
> ($resp->result); doesn't contain anything, but the groups are not sorted
> by owner.
> 
> >From the command line, ldapsearch -b
> ou=leiden,ou=groups,ou=peopl,o=probes -h mole -x -S "owner cn"
> (&(objectclass=groupofuniquenames)(objectclass=mailgroup))" owner cn
> 
> I get the same list of groups and attributes, also not sorted by owner.
> Looks more like ldif order - groups listed in the order they were set
> up. After the list is finished, it's followed by an error:
> Server reported sorting error 53: unable to sort
> 
> LDAP log shows no sign of the error (neither does the error log), and
> what looks like a good sort:
> [05/Oct/2000:15:37:50 -0700] conn=1946 fd=60 slot=60 connection from
> 10.1.8.10 to 10.1.2.5
> [05/Oct/2000:15:37:50 -0700] conn=1946 op=0 SRCH
> base="ou=leiden,ou=groups,ou=people,o=probes" scope=2
> filter="(&(objectclass=groupofuniquenames)(objectclass=mailgroup))"
> [05/Oct/2000:15:37:50 -0700] conn=1946 op=0 SORT owner cn (4)
> [05/Oct/2000:15:37:50 -0700] conn=1946 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=101
> nentries=4 etime=0
> [05/Oct/2000:15:37:50 -0700] conn=1946 op=1 UNBIND
> [05/Oct/2000:15:37:50 -0700] conn=1946 op=1 fd=60 closed - U1
> 
> Why might the $mesg->control( LDAP_CONTROL_SORTRESULT ); not show the
> error if the command line tool does?
> 
> Issue 2 for the LDAP server:
> Why wouldn't the server sort my request by owner. I've sorted by all
> kinds of other attributes, indexed and non indexed. This is an
> iPlanet/Netscape Directory server 4.11. Has anyone else seen this
> behavior sorting groups by owner?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
>