Re: Mozilla address book and "(undefined)" filters

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Graham Leggett wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have set up Mozilla v1.6 to connect to the openldap v2.0.27 server 
> that successfully runs our mail server installation. Mozilla binds 
> correctly, but then issues the following query filter according to the 
> logs:
>
> Apr  5 16:46:43 gatekeeper slapd[2202]: conn=11257 op=1 SRCH
> base="dc=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=xxx" scope=2
> filter="(|(cn=*minfrin*)(givenName=*minfrin*)(sn=*minfrin*)(undefined)(undefined)(undefined)(undefined))" 
>
>
> I am stuck on the "undefined" elements of the search filter. Either 
> Mozilla is sending the literal string "undefined" (which I doubt), or 
> openldap is replacing the parts of the filter that it cannot resolve 
> with the string "undefined". This indicates clearly which parts of the 
> filter openldap is objecting to, but unfortunately at the same time it 
> masks the original filter, which means I cannot see what the problem 
> might be.
>
> Is there a way to convince openldap to log the exact filter as sent by 
> the client as well as the filter as parsed by openldap? This way I'll 
> be able to see exactly what Mozilla is doing that openldap is 
> objecting to, so that I can take some kind of action to fix it.

Mozilla is sending a request for attribute types that are not defined in 
the schema
loaded into the server. Sniff the connection (e.g. use -d -1 in slapd, 
and you'll see
raw BER encoding).

p.



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