Re: Net::LDAP + win2k + LDAP_PARTIAL_RESULTS

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

Lance Uyehara <la...@ve...> wrote:
> I am using Net::LDAP 0.22 to connect to a win2k Active Directory. I do the
> bind which works great, then do a search. Windows sends the results broken
> up into multiple packets. Net::LDAP reports $mesg->code =
> LDAP_PARTIAL_RESULTS, which makes sense. How do I get the packets combined
> into a single result?
> 
> Do I have to change something on the win2k side, or can I do something
> using Net::LDAP to make sense of the results? or is this fixed in a later
> version of Net::LDAP?
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> Lance
> 
> 

"Partial results" is the way for an LDAP server to indicate that it could
send back some results directly, but there are also some continuation
references (references to other servers) that you may need to follow
yourself.

To get the continuation references from Net::LDAP, the $mesg->references()
call will return an array of LDAP URLs, which you then need to break apart
using (eg) URI::ldap in order to create new connections to new LDAP servers.

Active Directory might also support some non-standard Control to get the
server to follow the continuation references for you. I've no idea what
that might be though.

Cheers,

Chris