Re: Supported RFC's and "features"

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@coreng.com.au>]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Marc Chantreux wrote:

> > Why is this problematic?  Server side sorting is a horrible waste of 
> > server CPU that's better served by the client doing sorting how it 
> > wants.
> 
> well ... i think this feature could be very usefull in certain cases.

What if a hundred clients all asked for a server sort at the same time?

> Imagine I just want to know what's the max uidNumber used in my 
> directory. actually, i ask the server to give all the uidNumbers and my 
> client sort them. isn't it an horrible waste of bandwidth ?

So you ask for "maxUidNumber" instead...

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