Re: openldap client - detect paging and count number of entries search return

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Anoob Backer wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i would like to know best way to accomplish the below given operations; 
> considering both time and memory
>
> * detect whether LDAP server has enabled paging (without making an 
> ldap_search call; preferably)
>    currently i am doing a ldap_search and detecting the error code 
> LDAP_NOT_SUPPORTED, then reverting back

What is the point of using the paging control in this situation? There's 
pretty much no good reason to ever use it.

> * counting the number of entries satisfying particular filter
>    i am planning to do an asynchronous LDAP search and do a 
> ldap_count_entries on the result

If you're going to wait for the result before you start counting, then there's 
no point in doing an asynchronous search.
> thanks
> bekz


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