Re: [Fwd] LDAP Help

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

On 7/8/02 8:59 pm, Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Joshua Kahn <ka...@ma...> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 14:58:16 -0500
> To: gb...@po...
> From: Joshua Kahn <ka...@ma...>
> Subject: LDAP Help
> 
> Graham-
> 
> I am working on a simple LDAP Search for our department site, however, I
> have encountered an error that I have not been able to solve.  In the error
> log, I get the following message:
> 
>    decode error 15 17 at /Library/Perl/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 196.
> 
> I have not been able to determine what is causing this error, any
> ideas?  We are using a Mac OS-9 server.  It would seem to me that the
> server is returning information that the decoded is not prepared for.

That could be. Can you capture the exact message that the server's
returning? Call $ldap->debug(2) before issuing the search.

> my $dn         = "humonc";
[...]
> my $result = $ldap->search(
>      base   => $dn,
>      scope  => $scope,
>      filter => $filter
>   );

However, $dn does not contain a valid DN. Read RFC 2253
(<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2253.txt>) to find out what DNs look like.
Maybe your server's sending back a badly encoded or unexpected kind of error
in response to this bad search.

Cheers,

Chris