Re: pagedResults in back-ldap (ITS#3283)

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openldapmarcw@rutabaga.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 borwicjh@wfu.edu wrote:
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>>Full_Name: John Borwick
>>Version: 2.2.13
>>OS: Red Hat Workstation 3
>>URL: 
>>Submission from: (NULL) (152.17.54.174)
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>>Hello!
>>
>>OpenLDAP advertises the pagedResults control, but back-ldap does not support
>>it.
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>>It would be really neat if back-ldap supported pagedResults.  Perhaps back-ldap
>>could support pagedResults only if the directory to which back-ldap is pointing
>>supports pagedResults.
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>>Also, it would be nice to have a way to turn off the advertisement of a
>>control.
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>>Our Outlook 2003 users could not access LDAP for a while, because Outlook
>>detected that OpenLDAP supports pagedResults, but back-ldap does not support
>>pagedResults.
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>We've been unable to get Outlook to work properly with 2.2.13
>and were forced to fall back to 2.1.30 due to this issue.
>Unfortunately, 2.2.13 has worked much better for us.
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>Is there some workaround or a fix in the works?
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I've just committed a fix to HEAD code that enables pagedResults control
for back-ldap.  If you test it, and report positively, I can prepare a 
port to 2.2.
I do not foresee a release any close, but the fix is (almost) trivial 
and a patch
should be easy to generate.

p.




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