Re: Can I query an attribute's type?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Michael B Allen wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:03:14 -0700
> "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
>
>   
> > slapd(8) supports the LDAP subschema discovery mechanism
> > detailed in RFC 4512.
> >     
>
> Actually I think I'm going to opt for shipping a file of known binary
> attributes. Searching the schema is clearly not portable.
>   

Excuse me? This has been a standard feature of LDAPv3 for several years. 
It is the *only* portable approach, by definition. All LDAPv3 servers 
must support it otherwise they are not LDAPv3 servers.
> Also, I'm just curious by why didn't you present the schema information
> like all other information in the directory so that it's searchable
> using regular ldap routines?
>   

Since it is of course searchable using the standard LDAP Search 
operation, you clearly have no idea what you're asking.

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