RE: help needed on referrals

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

The fix I applied to the referral problem you mentioned is in
slapd/result.c, not libldap/result.c.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Bharat Tewari
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:39 AM
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: help needed on referrals
>
>
> hi guys
> i am posting this query in both the forums as i am not too sure what i am
> getting is correct or not, please clarify, i will try to give all the
> details.
> Machine 1 : Name: creator1 and the corresponding database
> associated with it
> is
> dn: o=Wipro, c=IN
> o: Wipro
> objectClass: organization
>
> dn: atvalue=campus, o=Wipro, c=IN
> atvalue: campus
> objectclass: AppliedThrough
>
> dn: atvalue=consultant, o=Wipro, c=IN
> ref: ldap://holmes:6001/atvalue=consultant,o=wipro,c=in/        holmes
> objectclass: AppliedThrough
> objectclass: referral
>
> dn: atvalue=advt, o=Wipro, c=IN
> atvalue: advt
> objectclass: AppliedThrough
> > >
> dn: atvalue=referral, o=Wipro, c=IN
> atvalue: referral
> objectclass: AppliedThrough
> > >
> Second Machine : Name holmes which holds the actual database.
> Now when i run the command
> ./ldapsearch -b 'atvalue=consultant,o=wipro,c=in' -p 6001 -h creator1 cn=*
> it gives me the
> following search result
> > >ldap_search: Partial results and referral received
> > >        matched: "atvalue=consultant, o=Wipro, c=IN"
> > >        additional info:
> ldap://holmes:6001/atvalue=consultant,o=wipro,c=in
> Now shouldn't it be chasing the referral returned and get me the actual
> result for the query or this
> is the ldapsearch behavior and it is my job to parse the url
> again and send
> the result. Now i thought
> that Hu was trying to resolve this problem only so I went to the
> repository
> and took the latest version of libldap/result.c but for me
> nothing chnages.
> The same result is returned with -R also, i am a bit confused and i really
> want to understand the concept of referrals.
> When i tried firing the same query through the Netscape JAVA SDK 3.0, its
> supposed to generate
> ldapreferral exception but it returns with unknown error (80). If anybody
> has used that and was able to work with referrals, it would be great
> appreciated.
> If you all need any other clarifications i will surely provide, this has
> taken my whole day and i am still where i started although have seen a lot
> of code in the whole day.
> Thx
> bharat
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