Re: NULL result without error in call_object

[David L. <dav...@cs...>]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael Str=F6der typed thusly:
> Another interesting observation:
>
> If I call method result() of LDAPObject with a meaningless msgid it
> simply blocks. Shouldn't there be an error returned by the
> underlying LDAP libs which should be raised as exception? Well, I'm
> not sure about the details though.

well, i think that the client side doesn't bother to check if msgids are
valid. i expect it just waits for the server to send it a reply with that
msgid (which it won't). so, garbage in, garbage out (including 'bottom').

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