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Protocol: confusing continuation references instruction
- To: <ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org>
- Subject: Protocol: confusing continuation references instruction
- From: "Jim Sermersheim" <jimse@novell.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:30:35 -0700
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In 4.5.3 of [Protocol], there is the statement:
> In the absence of indexing information provided to a server from
> servers holding subordinate naming contexts, SearchResultReference
> responses are not affected by search filters and are always returned
> when in scope.
Anyone have an idea what this means?
My best guess is that some implementations may hold a copy of some amount of data held in a subordinate naming context (via whatever mechanism they choose--not just "indexing"). And if those servers can use the search filter to determine that there are no entries in the subordinate naming context, it does not need to send a continuation reference for the subordinate DSA(s).
Jim