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

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 08:41 PM 8/12/2004, borwicjh@wfu.edu wrote:
>Full_Name: John Borwick
>Version: 2.2.13
>OS: Red Hat Workstation 3
>URL: 
>Submission from: (NULL) (152.17.54.174)
>
>
>Hello!
>
>OpenLDAP advertises the pagedResults control, but back-ldap does not support
>it.

Note that advertisement implies on that the server (as a whole)
recognizes (implements) the control.  It does not imply that
any particular operation which makes use of that control is
serviceable.  There seems to a bug in OpenLDAP in that it
is returning unavailableCriticalExtension for a recognized
control used in an appropriate manner.  Instead a service
error (such as unwillingToPerform) should be returned.



>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.
>
>Also, it would be nice to have a way to turn off the advertisement of a
>control.
>
>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.
>
>Thanks!