Re: Substring filter not working

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

Chris Ridd <chr...@me...> wrote:
> 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.

Also are you setting your search base and scope correctly in Net::LDAP, and
are you authenticated appropriately?

Cheers,

Chris