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Re: (ITS#8004) Simple Paged Control: Set 'size' in return control value to number of search results

michael@stroeder.com wrote:
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> Feature request:
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2696#section-3
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>     In the control returned to the client, the
>     size MAY be set to the server's estimate of the total number of
>     entries in the entire result set.
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> So a client could evaluate this size value whether it's greater than 0 and take
> this as indication how many search results would be returned (and e.g. display
> it to the user).

slapd doesn't know in advance how many results can be returned. It knows 
how many potential candidates were generated by index lookups, but this 
number may be much larger than the actual result set. In particular, the 
result set may be much smaller due to ACLs, as well as actual filter 
comparisons. It would be a security violation to disclose the existence 
of entries that the user is not permitted to see.

Rejecting this request.

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