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Re: Fwd: controlling visability of subentries
Date sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:39:27 -0400
From: Mark Smith <mcs@netscape.com>
> Perhaps. A reasonable compromise might be to return LDAP subentries
> in these two cases:
Mark
I agree with you. If the dn of the subentry is used in a base Search
(and the schema subentry DN can be easily got from every entry
that holds the subschemaSubentry op attribute for example), then it
would be churlish to not return any information just because the
control is not set
David
>
> 1) When a returnSubEntries control (to be defined) is present in the
> search request.
>
> 2) When the scope of the search is baseObject.
>
> Why return LDAP subentries in case 2)? Because it is more compatible
> with 2251. And because I do not think it does any harm -- if a client
> knows the name of a subentry, it might just as well be able to
> retrieve it without using any controls. Comments?
>
> --
> Mark Smith
> Netscape
>
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