Re: Searching for (objectClass=UNDEFINED)...

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> ... returns success with the text "value does not conform to assertion
> syntax"; is this the intended behavior, or should the filter error go
> completely unnoticed, and the text rather be logged, or what?
>
> The current behavior seems to be a consequence of
>
> 	servers/slapd/ava.c 1.45 ->  1.46 (by hyc)
>
> returning LDAP_SUCCESS instead of rc, without intentionally?) clearing text.

Probably the text should be NULLed out. Illegal filters are supposed to be 
ignored; certainly no diagnostic should be sent back to any client.

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