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Re: Continuation reference to root DN
Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>At 05:38 AM 2002-11-15, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>The protocol draft says:
>>> 4.5.3 "Continuation References in the Search Result" says:
>>> The SearchResultReference is of the same data type as the Referral.
>>> URLs for servers implementing the LDAP protocol are written according
>>> to [LDAPDN]. The <dn> part MUST be present in the URL,
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> What if one wants to specify a search from basedn ""?
>
> Provide an present but empty <dn> part.
Well, maybe. Since there is no difference between the two, I have
difficulty reading the sentence as something else than "the DN may MUST
NOT be empty." How about replacing that sentence with:
If the DN has length zero, it means the root DN "" and not a default
DN.
This makes the contrast with 4.1.10. Referral clear. There, an absent
DN means use the old DN. (Which BTW means that referrals cannot refer
to the root DN.)
--
Hallvard