Perl-Backend Proxy Problem

[Bela Kovac <wizard@uni-paderborn.de>]

Hi all,

i'm trying to establish a kind of proxy with the perl-backend (It is 
planned that the proxy will add some extra functionality in the future, 
but for now it should simply forward queries). The proxy is supposed to 
work like this:

1.) The (perl-backend) proxy gets a LDAP-query (ldapsearch from the 
shell)
2.) The backend forwards the query to another LDAP-server
3.) The other LDAP-server responds to the backend
4.) The backend forwards the response to ldapsearch


So far steps 1 to 3 are running fine. That means that the perl-backend 
knows the resulting data from the other LDAP-server. The problem i have 
is that i cannot seem to take the last step, which means that the data 
is lost and ldapsearch print just an "empty" LDIF result.

In the Sample.pm and manpage (man 5 slapd-perl) it is written (at 
subroutine search) that results are returned in the format ( 
resultnumber, LDIF-entry, LDIF-entry, ... ). I'm not sure what 
LDIF-entry exactly means:

Suppose i search for the cn's of some people and the perl-backend knows 
the results. In what format do i have to return this data? I tried the 
format to be in LDIF-format, which means

version: 1
dn:cn=MrX,ou=People,ou=someCompany
cn: Mister X

This doesn't work (even if i remove the first line "version: 1"). So 
what format so i need? A simple string? An array? Hash? Object?


If someone could help me this would be great! If you need further 
details of my problem just say so, i will try to explain further.


Bela

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