Re: chasing referrals

[Terry D. <td...@bi...>]

That seems broken.  That whole missing idea competely breaks 
replication.  I was reading up a little bit and I see that you can 
possibly get a list of referrals from Net::ldap::message.
Is this correct?

If so, how ?  I am quite a n00b.  

Thank you!

Lars Thegler wrote:

>From: "Terry Davis" <td...@bi...>
>
>>I feel a need to chase referrals.  I am getting the idea that this is
>>not default behavior for perl-ldap.  How can I make this happen for me?
>>
>
>You right - this is not default behaviour. The overall consensus is that it
>must be up to the application, when and how to chase referrals. Especially
>authentication against the referred-to server needs to done carefully.
>
>Basically, you're on your own. One point, though: LDAPv2 doesn't handle
>referrals very elegantly - the response code for a referral is
>LDAP_PARTIAL_RESULTS, which is also used for - you guessed it - partial
>results... LDAPv3 has much better granularity, and a specific LDAP_REFERRAL
>return code.
>
>>Terry
>>
>
>/Lars
>