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(c.harding 38467) bug in blits
Hi -
It seems a bit surprising that this hasn't come up before. Should we change
BLITS as suggested?
>From: Christopher Oliva <Chris.Oliva@entrust.com>
>To: "'capple@att.com'" <capple@att.com>,
> "'c.harding@opengroup.org'"
> <c.harding@opengroup.org>,
> "'ludovic.poitou@france.sun.com'"
> <ludovic.poitou@france.sun.com>
>Subject: (c.harding 38467) bug in blits
>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:26:36 -0500
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>Comments: (c.harding 38467)
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a bug report for the following tests in the BLITS suite:
>
>3.3.2.9.2
>3.3.2.9.3
>3.3.2.9.4
>
>They are testing the ldap server response to a search where no entries match
>the search filter. They require the "noSuchObject" error to be returned. In
>reality, this is not correct. I can tell you that from working with many
>(commercial release) directory products that none of them return this error.
>The correct response from the server is a "success" code with no matching
>search result entries i.e. there will be no matches and the search completes
>successfully.
>
>The reason is in X.500. Clause 10.2.3 of X.511 (1997) says this:
>
>The search request succeeds if the baseObject is located, regardless of
>whether there are any subordinates to return.
>
>Furthermore, noSuchObject is defined as follows in clause 12 of X.511:
>
>noSuchObject - The name supplied does not match the name of any object
>
>Applied to the search operation, this means the base object parameter of the
>search (if it cannot be located) will result in this error.
>
>This is substantiated by the description of how an LDAPResult is constructed
>in RFC 2251 4.1.10.
>
>As a result of this, I think the BLITS test should be changed. I think some
>directory implementations may code the incorrect behaviour into their
>products unless this is changed.
>
>Please let me know what you think.
>
>Chris.
>
>
>
Regards,
Chris
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