Re: The Mysteries of Substr Searches

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 03:17 PM 2/14/01 -0800, Adam wrote:
>So, my question is this: If I give you a valid LDAP search filter, 
>but it's an invalid search type (SUBSTR instead of EQUALITY), why does
>ldapsearch and friends just tell me there are no objectes, instead of
>complaining about the invalid search type?

You specified an filter which for each entry within scope evaluated
to Undefined (per RFC 2251 and X.511) and hence no entries were
returned.  The server is obligated by the technical specification
not to treat such as an error.

Kurt