Re: Substring filter not working

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Jan Gruber <Jan...@po...> wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm using a Netscape Directory Server and perl-ldap-0.22/Convert::ASN1
> 
> Is there any special preparation for substring filters ?
> 
> If i submit a (uid=*234*) subtree search at the Netscape Console, it
> works as  expected. The same filter submitted via perl-ldap does not
> return anything :(  I tried it with \* and *, the result didn't change. 
> Even digging with  perl -d didnt  help.
> 
> The LDAP::Filter manpage shows special characters for *, so the encoding 
> should work for that asterisk. 
> 
> Any hint would be appreciated,
> TIA

Create the Net::LDAP object with debug set to 12 and repeat your test. This
will dump out the protocol that Net::LDAP is sending to the server (and
back), and it may reveal that something's going wrong at this point.

Cheers,

Chris