Re: Net::LDAP + win2k + LDAP_PARTIAL_RESULTS

[Kurt D. Z. <Ku...@Op...>]

LDAP_PARTIAL_RESULTS in an LDAPv2+ result code indicating
the result PDU contains referrals (or references).  I
strongly recommend avoiding LDAPv2+ (and LDAPv2).

At 02:44 AM 2002-03-27, Chris Ridd wrote:
>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