Re: NEW: chasing referrals

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

Roland Stigge <rol...@ep...> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Graham Barr wrote:
>> Ah, OK. Try this patch to Net::LDAP::Search
> 
> OK, let's see...
> 
> this code:
> -----
> @referrals = $mesg->referrals;
> foreach $ref (@referrals) {
>   print "Referral: ",$ref,"\n";
> }
> 
> @references = $mesg->references;
> foreach $ref (@references) {
>   print "Reference: ",$ref,"\n";
> }
> -----
> 
> produces:
> -----
> Reference: ldap://deledda/c=us,o=epigenomics
> -----
> 
> So what's the difference between reference and referral?

A referral is returned when the *entire* operation must be resent to
another server.

A continuation reference is returned when *part* of the operation must be
resent to another server.

Cheers,

Chris