Re: NEW: chasing referrals

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

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

See RFC 2251 section 4.5.3 for more details.

Cheers,

Chris